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Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

Download or Read eBook Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation PDF written by Gordon Pirie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781526118479
ISBN-13 : 1526118475
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Book Synopsis Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation by : Gordon Pirie

Book excerpt: 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. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.


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