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Fordlandia

Author: Eduardo Sguiglia; Patricia J Duncan
Publisher: New York : T. Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
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While Henry Ford, safe in Detroit, schemes to produce his own rubber for the Ford Motor Company, Horacio is the man who struggles to run Fordlandia, the rubber plantation in the jungles of the Amazon.
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Genre/Form: Utopian fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Henry Ford
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Eduardo Sguiglia; Patricia J Duncan
ISBN: 0312265921 9780312265922
OCLC Number: 44039860
Description: 245 p. ; 22 cm.
Other Titles: Fordlandia.
Responsibility: Eduardo Sguiglia ; translated from the Spanish by Patricia J. Duncan.
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In 1929, Henry Ford, presiding in flinty authority over his automobile empire, grew tired of the British monopoly on Brazilian rubber. He decided to produce his own rubber, and set about colonizing  Read more...

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