Gordon Pirie

Air empire (eBook, PDF)

British imperial civil aviation, 1919-39

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526118493
• Artikelnr.: 60362616

Autorenporträt

Gordon Pirie is Professor of Geography at the University of the Western Cape in greater Cape Town, South Africa

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction PART 1 LOOKING UP 2. Ideas and initiatives 3. Empire airway
pioneering 4. Conferring and agitating PART 2 TALKING UP 5. Organising
Empire civil aviation 6. Route reconnaissance 7. Propagating Empire
aviation PART 3 HOLDING UP 8. Trunk route development 9. Route organisation
10. Eastern crescent 11.African arc PART 4 SHORING UP 12. Arguing about
Imperial Airways 13. Reconfiguring Empire aviation 14. Transformation 15.
Conclusion