Grandin, G: Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Faber & Faber
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
07.10.2010
Abbildungen
Illustrations, unspecified
Verlag
Faber & FaberSeitenzahl
432
Maße (L/B/H)
19.4/12.7/2.8 cm
Gewicht
317 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84831-154-1
But Ford wanted more than just rubber. Across the United Sates, small-town America was giving way to growing cities, consumerism and crass, brash new society. Ford wanted to create in the Amazon an America in his own image - Fordlandia, full of neat houses, straight roads and restrained Puritanism. By 1945 it was abandoned in ruins.
Fordlandia is the powerful, never-before-told fable of the pride and arrogance of the man who thought he alone could tame the Amazon. Filled with clash and contradiction, it is the battle between industrialised capitalism and the raw power of nature; it is the struggle too within Ford himself, the man who despised the new America that he himself had set in motion, who spent twenty years and several fortunes on his Amazonian dream, yet never set foot inside it.
Superbly researched and grippingly told, Greg Grandin gives us a portrait of a man suffering under the grand delusion that the forces of capitalism, once released, might then be contained.
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