Joel Wolfe

Autos and Progress

The Brazilian Search for Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Brasília, as well as culturally and politically with the transformation of segments of the poor into a democratic and assertive working class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780195174571
• ISBN-10: 0195174577
• Artikelnr.: 28523984

Autorenporträt

Joel Wolfe is Associate Professor of History at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of Working Women, Working Men: Sao Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955 (Duke UP, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1.: First Cars: Curiosities of the Elite
* 2.: The Coming of Tropical Modernity: Automobiles and the Question of
Nation
* 3.: Americanism and Fordism: The Search for the Brazilian El Dorado
* 4.: Nationalist Development: Vargas and the Integration of Brazil
* 5.: The Multinational Solution: Juscelino Kubitschek and the National
Auto Industry
* 6.: From Technocrats to Democrats: Automobility and Citizenship
* Epilogue Tropical Modernity in a Globalized Space
* Notes