Pirie Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

Passengers, pilots, publicity
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1847-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 95, 264 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pirie, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Luftverkehr

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General editor’s introduction
1. Introduction
PART I Private flying
2. Aerial adventure
3. Seeking supremacy
4. Imperial encounters
PART II Commercial flying
5. ‘PAX’ Britannica
6. Imperial journeys
7. Personifying Empire
PART III Virtual flying
8. Imperial plumage
9. Imperial passages
10. Re-flying Empire
11. Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pirie Gordon:
Gordon Pirie is Professor of Geography at the University of the Western Cape in greater Cape Town, South AfricaGordon Pirie is Deputy Director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town