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Paperback Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity Book

ISBN: 0195174569

ISBN13: 9780195174564

Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity

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Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the key for transformation and unification of Brazil; Henry...

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