Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil (Global and International History)
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| Management number | 231636614 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $14.80 | Model Number | 231636614 | ||
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From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the 'integration' of an extreme world periphery, but they were also legal and ethical, with the involvement of indentured labor and massive forest burning. Its physical limits were exposed by an unpredictable ecosystem refusing to submit to VW's technological arsenal. Antoine Acker reveals how the VW ranch, a major project supported by the Brazilian military dictatorship, was planned, negotiated, and eventually undone by the intervention of internationally connected actors and events. Read more
| ASIN | B0744KBNKK |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1108199148 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 2.8 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Word Wise | Not Enabled |
| Print length | 318 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Part of series | Global and International History |
| Publication date | September 21, 2017 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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