LEADER 05878nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910460317603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-66126-4 010 $a9786612661266 010 $a0-19-972127-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040680 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087249 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412401 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12155883 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412401 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10367414 035 $a(PQKB)11210414 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053782 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3053782 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10402688 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL266126 035 $a(OCoLC)650306850 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040680 100 $a20090508d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAutos and progress$b[electronic resource] $ethe Brazilian search for modernity /$fJoel Wolfe 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (x, 269 p. )$cill., port 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-517456-9 311 $a0-19-517457-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFirst cars : curiosities of the elite -- The coming of tropical modernity : automobiles and the question of nation -- Americanism and Fordism : the search for a Brazilian El Dorado -- Nationalist development : Getu?lio Vargas and the integration of Brazil -- The multinational solution : Juscelino Kubitschek and the national auto industry -- From technocrats to democrats : automobility and citizenship -- Epilogue: Tropical modernity in a globalized space. 330 $aThis work studies the automobile as both a tool and a cultural symbol of Brazil's status as a modern 'developed' nation. As such it addresses debates on state-making, the role of multi-national corporations in the region, middle-class consumerism, working-class politics, and much more. 330 $bAutos and Progress studies the automobile as both a tool and a cultural symbol of Brazil's status as a modern "developed" nation. As such it addresses debates on state-making, the role of multi-national corporations in the region, middle-class consumerism, working-class politics, and sports and leisure in the crafting of national identity, among others. Such a study is key for understanding the twentieth century because auto-based transportation became the central facet of Brazilian attempts to gain control over its massive national space. The most obvious expressions of this include the building of BrasLlia to be the new, interior national capital, the extensive road building throughout the Amazon in the 1970's, the nation's development of one of the world's leading alternative fuel industries, Brazilian dominance in world Formula One racing, and the fact that the current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is a former auto worker and trade union leader. This focus on Brazilians' fascination with automobiles and their reliance on auto production and consumption as keys to their economic and social transformation, explains how Brazil -- which enshrined its belief in science and technology in its national slogan of Order and Progress -- has differentiated itself from other Latin American nations. This embrace of automobility allowed the Brazilian elite to use industrialism and the increased mobility of an auto-based society to attempt to remake the nation's poor into a more homogeneous population. Autos and Progress engages key issues in the Brazil around the meaning and role of race in society and also addresses several classic debates in Brazilian studies about the nature of Brazil's great size and diversity and how they shaped state-making. Autos and Progress unifies Brazilian economics, politics, and culture in the twentieth century. It provides a unique historical context for understanding Brazilian modernism in politics and culture. Moreover, by analyzing the origins of auto-oriented industrialism and consumerism, the book is an economic, cultural and social history of Brazilian attempts to remake the nation into a middle-class democracy. This aspect of the study presents a new interpretation for the rise of Brazil's New Unionism, which was born in Brazil's auto, truck, and bus factories. 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