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"In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, soon became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the lean, austere car magnate; on the other, the Amazon, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Indigenous workers rejected Ford's midwestern Puritanism, turning the place into a ribald tropical boomtown. And his efforts to apply a system of regimented mass production to the Amazon's diversity resulted in a rash environmental assault that foreshadowed many of the threats laying waste to the rain forest today."--Publisher description
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Fordlandia, Greg Grandin
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- Année de publication
- 2010
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- Titre
- Fordlandia
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Greg Grandin
- Éditeur
- Picador USA
- Publié
- 2010
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0312429622
- ISBN13
- 9780312429621
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Commerce, Affaires & Gestion, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Histoire, Économie, Histoire des États-Unis, Brésil
- Évaluation
- 3,6 sur 5
- Description
- "In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, soon became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the lean, austere car magnate; on the other, the Amazon, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Indigenous workers rejected Ford's midwestern Puritanism, turning the place into a ribald tropical boomtown. And his efforts to apply a system of regimented mass production to the Amazon's diversity resulted in a rash environmental assault that foreshadowed many of the threats laying waste to the rain forest today."--Publisher description