Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / Greg Grandin.
Title:
Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / Greg Grandin.
Author:
Grandin, Greg, 1962-
ISBN:
9780805082364
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Edition:
First edition
Publication Information:
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.
Physical Description:
xii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Part I: Many things otherwise inexplicable -- Part II: Lord Ford -- Part III: Rubber Rouge.
Abstract:
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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