Autos and progress [electronic resource] : the Brazilian search for modernity / Joel Wolfe.

By: Wolfe, Joel, 1960-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: x, 269 p. : illSubject(s): 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 | Brazil -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 20th century | Brazil -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.4/76292220981 LOC classification: HE5653.A6 | W65 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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 : Getulio 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 : Getulio 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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