Gordon Pirie

Air empire

British imperial civil aviation, 1919-39

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. It uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Imperialism
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780719041112
• ISBN-10: 0719041112
• Artikelnr.: 27431104

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