Isbn: 9781316647776 - volkswagen in the amazon: the tragedy of global development in modern brazil (global and international history) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 314 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon. Series: Global and International History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontierlaid barethe 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.…