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Author: Joel Wolfe
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195174577

Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity

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. Get Autos and Progress computer books for free.
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' Check Autos and Progress our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.