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

Call Numbers

  • 981.15 G753 (CEN)
  • H 981.15 G753 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2009.

Physical Description

xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Summary

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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