Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / Greg Grandin.
2009
F2651.F55 G72 2009 (Mapit)
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Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / Greg Grandin.
Author
Grandin, Greg, 1962-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805082364
0805082360
0805082360
Publication Details
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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F2651.F55 G72 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.76/8098115
Summary
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Many things otherwise inexplicable
Part II: Lord Ford
Part III: Rubber Rouge.
Part II: Lord Ford
Part III: Rubber Rouge.