Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Air Annual of the British Empire
Author: The Air Annual of the British Empire
Author: Cyril G. BurgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Air empire
Author: Gordon PiriePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526118491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain’s development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.
Technical Data Digest
Author: United States. Army. Air ServicePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
Author: Gordon PiriePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526118475
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. EpsteinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270638
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1506
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Author: Fuel and Power in the British Empire
Author: John R. BradleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Annual Statement of the Foreign Sea and Air-Borne Trade of India
Author: India. Department of Commercial Intelligence and StatisticsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description