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Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity Hardback - 2010 - 1st Edition

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Author: Wolfe, Joel
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Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the key for transformation and unification of Brazil; Henry Ford's building of a company town in the Brazilian jungle; the creation of a transportation infrastructure; democratization and consumer culture; auto workers and their creation of a national political party; and the economic and environmental impact of autos on Brazil. This focus on Brazilians' fascination with automobiles and their reliance on auto production and consumption as keys to their economic and social transformation, explains how Brazil--which enshrined its belief in science and technology in its national slogan of Order and Progress--has differentiated itself from other Latin American nations. Autos and Progress engages key issues in Brazil around the meaning and role of race in society and also addresses several classic debates in Brazilian studies about the nature of Brazil's great size and diversity and how they shaped state-making.

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Title Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity
Author Joel Wolfe
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 288
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Publication date 2010-02-16
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9780195174571 / 0195174577
Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.75 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Cultural Region: Latin America
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Brazil - Economic conditions - 20th century, Brazil - Politics and government - 20th
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009018928
Dewey Decimal Code 338.476

About the author

Joel Wolfe is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of Working Women, Working Men: So Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955.

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