Fordlandia

Jun 30, 2009

Strand Bookstore

Greg Grandin talked about his book Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books; June 9, 2009). He recounts Henry Ford's creation of a factory town in the Amazon in 1927 to produce rubber. The town, Fordlandia, complete with movie theaters and Model Ts, was rejected by the indigenous population .. Read More
Greg Grandin talked about his book Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books; June 9, 2009). He recounts Henry Ford's creation of a factory town in the Amazon in 1927 to produce rubber. The town, Fordlandia, complete with movie theaters and Model Ts, was rejected by the indigenous population and abandoned by Ford in 1945. Mr. Grandin responded to questions from members of the audience. Greg Grandin is the author of several books, including The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Mr. Grandin is a history professor at New York University and a Guggenheim fellow. He has served on the United Nations Truth Commission that investigated the Guatemalan Civil War. The documentary film shown prior to this talk was not included in this program.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:14 Unidentified Speaker GREG GRANDIN, HISTORY PROFESSOR IN NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, RECOUNT HENRY FORD'S RECREATIONS OF A FACTORY...
00:00:45 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. IN 1927 AND RECORD, THE MAN WHO PERFECTED THE ASSEMBLY LINE AND PUT THE WORLD ON WHEELS,...
00:24:23 Unidentified Speaker TWO QUESTIONS ACTUALLY. HOW DID YOU FIRST BECOME INTERESTED IN FORDLANDIA AND WHAT IS YOUR NEXT PROJECT?...
00:24:33 Unidentified Speaker I FIRST BECAME INTERESTED -- I FIRST READ ABOUT FORDLANDIA IN A GREAT BOOK CALLED FAITH OF THE FOREST...
00:25:43 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS GOING ON WHERE FORDLANDIA USED TO BE RIGHT NOW?
00:25:48 Unidentified Speaker IT IS STILL THERE. I TRAVELED THERE TWICE. IT IS STILL PRETTY REMOTE. IT TAKES 18 HOURS OF SLOW-MOVING...
00:29:42 Unidentified Speaker IT SEEMS AS IF THE AMERICAN AUTO INDUSTRY MAY BE ON ITS LAST LEGS. CHRYSLER JUST FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY....
00:29:55 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T KNOW IF IT FORESHADOWED IT. YOU CAN READ A LOT OF THINGS INTO HISTORICAL PARABLES. THERE...
00:30:56 Unidentified Speaker CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SORT OF SOCIAL CONTROL MECHANISMS AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ACTUAL...
00:31:27 Unidentified Speaker THERE WAS A SOCIAL HIERARCHY AND SEGREGATION OF THE MIDWESTERN -- BUNGALOW SECTIONS, WORKING CLASS...
00:36:13 Unidentified Speaker IT IS OFTEN QUOTED THAT HISTORY IS BUNK AND ALSO HIS LIFE AND ALL RELIGIOUS FAITHS?
00:36:22 Unidentified Speaker I WILL ANSWER THE SECOND QUESTION FIRST. HE WASN'T RELIGIOUS. HE GREW VAGUELY SPIRITUAL FOR THE END...
00:39:21 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL DARWINISM?
00:39:26 Unidentified Speaker HE NEVER DEVELOPED -- HE WAS AN -- ANTI-SEMITISM WAS VIRULENT AND PROFOUND. SOCIAL DARWINISM. AS...
00:40:03 Unidentified Speaker RESEARCHING THIS BOOK, DID YOU FIND EVEN WITH HIS VIEWS WHICH I ASSUME YOU DON'T ALWAYS AGREE WITH,...
00:40:28 Unidentified Speaker IN TERMS OF THE FIRST QUESTION, I DON'T KNOW IF I LIKED HIM BUT AS A HISTORIAN HE PROVIDED A NEVER-ENDING...
00:43:33 Unidentified Speaker I WAS WONDERING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE GENDER DIVISION OF LABOR WITHIN THE FACTORY AND THE CITY ITSELF...
00:44:16 Unidentified Speaker THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT UTOPIAN -- IT IS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE AMAZON BASIN. THERE ARE OTHERS...
00:47:06 Unidentified Speaker BUT NEVER ENOUGH TO PRODUCE ANY EASING DIVIDEND AMOUNT AND THEN.
00:47:20 Unidentified Speaker YES. I IMAGINE. [LAUGHTER]
00:47:39 Unidentified Speaker IN THE 19th CENTURY THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON PRIMARY SUPPLY SUPPLIED THE LATEX FOR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION...
00:49:41 Unidentified Speaker I HAD A CHANCE TO READ A BOOK AND ONE THING EVERY MEMBER IN THE INTRODUCTION THERE IS SOMEBODY WHO...
00:50:18 Unidentified Speaker YES. ONE OF THE FLEEING THIS IT WITH MY VISIT STOOP FORDLANDIA WAS THE INTENSE THE STALLS OF BY PEOPLE...
00:53:45 Unidentified Speaker I JUST WANT TO END IT AND GIVE A GREAT ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR WRITING SUCH A RIDDING HISTORY OF FORDLANDIA...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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