Air empire : British imperial civil aviation, 1919-39
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Air empire : British imperial civil aviation, 1919-39
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 2009
- : hbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
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 -- .
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