Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Aviation - Passengers, Pilots, Publicity

Informationen zum Autor Gordon Pirie is Professor of Geography at the University of the Western Cape in greater Cape Town, South Africa Klappentext Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age, class, gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the period was and is romanticised and caricatured. 'In all, this is a fascinating view of a bygone era.' Airways, 1 July 2013 -- . Zusammenfassung Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age! class! gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the period was and is romanticised and caricatured. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General editor's introduction1. Introduction PART I Private flying2. Aerial adventure3. Seeking supremacy4. Imperial encountersPART II Commercial flying5. 'PAX' Britannica 6. Imperial journeys7. Personifying EmpirePART III Virtual flying 8. Imperial plumage9. Imperial passages10. Re-flying Empire11. ConclusionIndex

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Pirie, Pirie Gordon
• Assisted by: John M. MacKenzie (Editor), Andrew Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2012
• EAN: 9780719086823
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8682-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > General, dictionaries, handbooks; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Colonialism & imperialism, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Transport industries, Colonialism and imperialism, British Isles, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Aerospace & Air Transport Industries