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Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation : passengers, pilots, publicity / Gordon Pirie

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Object Details

Author

Pirie, Gordon

Summary

This work looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. It 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 romanticised.

Date

2012
20th century

Type

Books

Physical description

xi, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Place

Great Britain

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Air travel--Social aspects--History
Aeronautics, Commercial--Social aspects--History
Transcontinental flights--Social aspects--History
Imperialism--Social aspects--History

Metadata Usage

CC0

Record ID

siris_sil_990301
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