Format:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780195174571
,
9780199721276
Content:
Autos and Progress analyzes autos as both tools for and cultural symbols of Brazil's status as a modern nation. This book details attempts to remake the nation physically and economically, through road building, the establishment of a domestic auto industry, and the founding of Bras?lia, as well as culturally and politically with the transformation of segments of the poor into a democratic and assertive working class
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 First Cars: Curiosities of the Elite -- CHAPTER 2 The Coming of Tropical Modernity: Automobiles and the Question of Nation -- CHAPTER 3 Americanism and Fordism: The Search for a Brazilian El Dorado -- CHAPTER 4 Nationalist Development: Getúlio Vargas and the Integration of Brazil -- CHAPTER 5 The Multinational Solution: Juscelino Kubitschek and the National Auto Industry -- CHAPTER 6 From Technocrats to Democrats: Automobility and Citizenship -- Epilogue: Tropical Modernity in a Globalized Space -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.
Additional Edition:
Print version Wolfe, Joel Autos and Progress Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2010 ISBN 9780195174571
Language:
English
Keywords:
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