Autos and Progress The Brazilian Search for Modernity

Name: Autos and Progress The Brazilian Search for Modernity
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ISBN: 9780195174564

ISBN-10: 0195174569

ISBN-13: 9780195174564

Edition: 2010

Authors: Joel Wolfe

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Autos 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 Brasilia to be the new, interior national capital, the extensive road building throughout…

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List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Introduction



First Cars: Curiosities of the Elite



The Coming of Tropical Modernity: Automobiles and the Question of Nation



Americanism and Fordism: The Search for the Brazilian El Dorado



Nationalist Development: 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


Notes