Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global. Acker Hardcover**

Name: Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global. Acker Hardcover**
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Volkswagen in the Amazon\nby Antoine Acker\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Antoine Acker\nTitle: Volkswagen in the Amazon\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781107197428\nISBN-10: 1107197422\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFrom 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 ecosyst.