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Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Gordon Pirie
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-01 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices.
Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Michael McCluskey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-01 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain looks at the impact of aviation in Britain and beyond through the 1920s and 1930s. This book consider
Writing imperial histories
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Andrew S. Thompson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-16 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publicati
Empire in the Air
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Chandra D. Bhimull
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-12 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Examines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industry Empire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air tr
Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Colin Divall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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For the majority of us the opportunity to travel has never been greater, yet differences in mobility highlight inequalities that have wider social implications.