Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City.
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin
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Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Noté 405 Retrouvez Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City et des millions de livres en stock sur Achetez neuf ou doccasion Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City Democracy Now 7209 1 of 2 We speak with NYU professor Greg Grandin about his new book Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City The book tells the story of Henry Ford the richest man in the Fordlandia Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City Failure Founded by Henry Ford in the late 1920s Fordlandia was the auto magnate’s illconceived attempt to establish a sprawling rubber plantation in the Brazilian Amazon Ford’s intention was to generate a stable affordable supply of rubber for his American factories but when he applied his system of mass production in the jungle South American leaf blight and a diverse assortment of bugs mites flies and caterpillars laid waste to his rubber trees Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Greg Grandin’s ‘Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City’ is an academic look at the sociological history of Henry Ford’s industrial empire particularly during its waning decades 19281948 with particular emphasis on its failed efforts to develop a commercially viable rubber plantation American village in the Brazilian Amazon » Fordlândia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Fordlândia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin Is there no end to the books about Henry Ford Can there really be anything new to write about Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Henry Ford never did things by halves When he built a factory it was a temple of industry such as the mammoth plant at River Rouge When he wanted a stable workforce he paid five dollars a day a sum that in 1914 seemed to his fellow capitalists irresponsibly generous Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten The stunning never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate smalltown America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927 Henry Ford the richest man in the world bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon Book Review Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford With “Fordlandia” Greg Grandin a professor of history at New York University tells a haunting story that falls squarely into this tradition Henry Ford’s failed endeavor to export Main Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City Greg Grandin on FREE shipping on qualifying offers The stunning never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate smalltown America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927 Fordlândia Wikipedia Ford had negotiated a deal with the Brazilian government granting him a concession of 10000 km 2 3900 sq mi of land on the banks of the Rio Tapajós near the city of Santarém Brazil in exchange for a 9 share in the profits generated Fords project failed and the city was abandoned in 1934
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