Empire of the Air - Aviation and the American Ascendancy

About the author

Jenifer Van Vleck is Curator in the Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Summary

Jenifer Van Vleck’s Empire of the Air reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the U.S. ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth century, as the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to deliver American power across the globe and sell the idea of the “American Century” to the public at home and abroad.

Product details

• Authors: Jenifer Van Vleck
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9780674050945
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05094-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, 20th Century, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Transport industries, Aerospace & Air Transport Industries