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UNINA9910779414603321 |
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Autore |
Curcio Vincent |
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Titolo |
Henry Ford [[electronic resource] /] / Vincent Curcio |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-991120-7 |
1-299-39725-5 |
0-19-971789-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (323 p.) |
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Collana |
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Lives and legacies series |
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Soggetti |
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Automobile industry and trade - United States - History |
Industrialists - United States |
United States Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; ONE: HOW IT ALL BEGAN; TWO: WALKING INTO THE FUTURE; THREE: COOKING WITH GAS; FOUR: THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY; FIVE: THE MODEL T AND THE COMING OF MASS PRODUCTION; SIX: PEACE AND WAR AND CONSOLIDATING POWER; SEVEN: MODERN TIMES; EIGHT: HAS SOMETHING COME BETWEEN US?; NINE: A BODY IN MOTION TENDS TO STAY IN MOTION; TEN: EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN; ELEVEN: EFFLORESCENCE AND HARD ENDINGS; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern world, and then tried to drag it back into a romanticized rural past he'd helped to destroy. As the American auto industry struggles to reinvent itself, Vincent Curcio's timely biography offers a wealth of new insight into the man who started it al |
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