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Volkswagen in the Amazon : the tragedy of global development in modern Brazil / Antoine Acker.

By: Acker, Antoine [author.].
Series: Global and international history.Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, ©2017Description: xiv,314p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781316647776 (pbk : alk. paper).Subject(s): Volkswagen do Brasil, S.A | Ranches -- Brazil -- History | Economic development -- Social aspects -- Brazil | Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil | Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1964-1985Genre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Setting the stage : the Amazon as a horizon -- The making of a model ranch (1973-1976) -- Development in the age of scarcity (1976-1983) -- Out-of-date modernity : forced labor at Cristalino (1983-1986) -- Cristalino's unhappy ending.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the stage : the Amazon as a horizon -- The making of a model ranch (1973-1976) -- Development in the age of scarcity (1976-1983) -- Out-of-date modernity : forced labor at Cristalino (1983-1986) -- Cristalino's unhappy ending.

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