Table of Contents: Autos and progress

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wolfe, Joel, 1960-
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Automobiles > Social aspects > Brazil > History > 20th century. Transportation, Automotive > Social aspects > Brazil > History > 20th century. Automobile industry and trade > Brazil > History > 20th century. Social change > Brazil > History > 20th century. Progress > History > 20th century. Nationalism > Brazil > History > 20th century. Political culture > Brazil > History > 20th century. Brazil > Social conditions > 20th century. Brazil > Economic conditions > 20th century. Brazil > Politics and government > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

First cars : curiosities of the elite
The coming of tropical modernity : automobiles and the question of nation
Americanism and Fordism : the search for a Brazilian El Dorado
Nationalist development : Getulio 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.