UID:
almafu_9960117454702883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-19553-9
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1-108-18712-9
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1-108-17846-4
Series Statement:
Global and international history
Content:
From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the 'integration' of an extreme world periphery, but they were also legal and ethical, with the involvement of indentured labor and massive forest burning. Its physical limits were exposed by an unpredictable ecosystem refusing to submit to VW's technological arsenal. Antoine Acker reveals how the VW ranch, a major project supported by the Brazilian military dictatorship, was planned, negotiated, and eventually undone by the intervention of internationally connected actors and events.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).
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Setting the stage : the Amazon as a horizon -- The making of a model ranch (1973-1976) -- Development in the age of scarcity (1976-1983) -- Out-of-date modernity : forced labor at Cristalino (1983-1986) -- Cristalino's unhappy ending.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-19742-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-64777-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108178464
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