An edition of Fordlandia: the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city (2009)

Fordlandia

the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city

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An edition of Fordlandia: the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city (2009)

Fordlandia

the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city

1st ed.

by , , and

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In response to Britian's attempt to establish a rubber cartel, Henry Ford started Fordlandia, a rubber plantation in the Brazilian rain forest. Rain-forest biology made running a rubber plantation difficult; Ford's ideas about expertise, labor relations, and culture made it effectively impossible; changing economic and political circumstances eventually made the rubber plantation impractical.

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Metropolitan Books
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English

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History, Ford Motor Company, Rubber plantations, Civilization, Planned communities, Influence, American influences, Political and social views, Ford, Henry, -- 1863-1947 -- Political and social views, Business & Investing -- Biography & History -- Company Profiles, History -- Americas -- South America -- Brazil, History -- Americas -- United States -- 20th Century, Nonfiction -- Automotive -- Industry, Ford, henry, 1863-1947, Ford motor company, Brazil, civilization, Brazil, politics and government, Brazil, history, City planning, brazil, Plantations, Collectivités nouvelles, Histoire, Plantations d'arbres à caoutchouc, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Städtebau, Automobilindustrie, Gummiindustrie
People
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Places
Brazil, Fordlándia, Fordlândia (Brazil)
Times
20th century

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
2010, Holt & Company, Henry
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
2010, Icon Books, Limited
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
April 27, 2010, Picador
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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Fordlandia: the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city
2009, Metropolitan Books
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First Sentence

"January 9, 1928: Henry Ford was in a spirited mood as he toured the Ford Industrial Exhibit with his son, Edsel, and his aging friend Thomas Edison, feigning fright at the flash of news cameras as a circle of police officers held back admirers and reporters."

Table of Contents

Introduction. Nothing is Wrong with Anything Page 1
I. Many Things Otherwise Inexplicable
1. Under an American Flag Page 21 2. The Cow Must Go Page 33 3. Absolute Americanisms Page 43 4. That's Where We Sure Can Get Gold Page 55 5. Fordville Page 77 6. They Will All Die Page 86 7. Everything Jake Page 97 8. When Ford Comes Page 108
II. Lord Ford
9. Two Rivers Page 123 10. Smoke and Ash Page 134 11. Prophesied Subjection Page 147 12. The Ford Way of Thinking Page 165 13. What Would You Give for a Good Job? Page 180 14. Let's Wander Out Yonder Page 202 15. Kill All the Americans Page 220
III. Rubber Rouge
16. American Pastoral Page 239 17. Good Lines, Straight and True Page 264 18. Mountains of the Moon Page 276 19. Only God Can Grow a Tree Page 294 20. Standard Practices Page 305 21. Bonfire of the Catepillars Page 316 22. Fallen Empire of Rubber Page 333 23. Tomorrow Land Page 343 Epilogue. Still Waiting for Henry Ford Page 353 Notes Page 373 Illustration Credits Page 399 Acknowledgements Page 401 Index Page 403

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.76/8098115
Library of Congress
F2651.F55 G72 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23001260M
Internet Archive
fordlandiarisefa00gran_290
ISBN 10
0805082360
ISBN 13
9780805082364
LCCN
2008049642
OCLC/WorldCat
276930372
Library Thing
8197445
Goodreads
6214108

Work Description

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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