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Air Empire - British Imperial Civil Aviation, 1919–39 (Hardcover)
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Air Empire - British Imperial Civil Aviation, 1919–39 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late
British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the
British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that
recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and
conquest. Britain’s development of international air routes and
services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London;
there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies
and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular
commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s.
Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that
Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda
concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival
sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to
chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric
behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial
hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional
appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice. -- .
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