Autos and progress : the Brazilian search for modernity / Joel Wolfe.

This work studies the automobile as both a tool and a cultural symbol of Brazil's status as a modern 'developed' nation. As such it addresses debates on state-making, the role of multi-national corporations in the region, middle-class consumerism, working-class politics, and much more...

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Main Author: Wolfe, Joel, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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