Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Aviation
Passengers, Pilots, Publicity
Seiten
2012
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-8682-3 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-8682-3 (ISBN)
Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. 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 and is romanticised and caricatured. -- .
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. -- .
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. -- .
Gordon Pirie is Deputy Director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town -- .
General editor’s introduction
1.Introduction
PART I Private flying
2.Aerial adventure
3.Seeking supremacy
4.Imperial encounters
PART II Commercial flying
5.‘PAX’ Britannica
6.Imperial journeys
7.Personifying Empire
PART III Virtual flying
8.Imperial plumage
9.Imperial passages
10.Re-flying Empire
11.Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2012 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Imperialism |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, black & white |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 568 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-8682-5 / 0719086825 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-8682-3 / 9780719086823 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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