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Autore: | Curcio Vincent |
Titolo: | Henry Ford / / Vincent Curcio |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
Disciplina: | 338.7/6292092 |
B | |
Soggetto topico: | Automobile industry and trade - United States - History |
Industrialists - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Biography |
Classificazione: | HIS036060BIO003000 |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Henry Ford |
ISBN: | 0-19-991120-7 |
1-299-39725-5 | |
0-19-971789-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824563603321 |
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