Antoine Acker

Volkswagen in the Amazon

The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 166mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107197428
• ISBN-10: 1107197422
• Artikelnr.: 49210794

Autorenporträt

Antoine Acker earned his Ph.D. at the European University Institute, Florence and has extensively researched and taught in seven different countries on a broad range of topics including environmental and Brazilian history, German culture and language, as well as political sciences. He was a lecturer at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (2013-2014), at the Université de La Rochelle, France (2014-2015) and a guest scholar at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands and Universität Bern, Switzerland (2015-2016). He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy in affiliation with the Marie Curie Excellence Fellowships program co-funded by the European Commission.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Setting the stage: the Amazon as a horizon; 2. The making of a model ranch (1973
1976); 3. Development in the age of scarcity (1976
1983); 4. Out
of
date modernity: forced labor at Cristalino (1983
1986); 5. Cristalino's unhappy ending.