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
Record ID
siris_sil_990301