Autos and progress [[electronic resource] ] : the Brazilian search for modernity / / Joel Wolfe
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| Autore: |
Wolfe Joel <1960->
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| Titolo: |
Autos and progress [[electronic resource] ] : the Brazilian search for modernity / / Joel Wolfe
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 269 p. ) : ill., port |
| Disciplina: | 338.4/76292220981 |
| Soggetto topico: | Automobiles - Social aspects - Brazil - History - 20th century |
| Transportation, Automotive - Social aspects - Brazil - History - 20th century | |
| Automobile industry and trade - Brazil - History - 20th century | |
| Social change - Brazil - History - 20th century | |
| Progress - History - 20th century | |
| Nationalism - Brazil - History - 20th century | |
| Political culture - Brazil - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Brazil Social conditions 20th century |
| Brazil Economic conditions 20th century | |
| Brazil Politics and government 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | First 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 : Getũlio 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Autos and progress |
| ISBN: | 1-282-66126-4 |
| 9786612661266 | |
| 0-19-972127-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460317603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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