AIR EMPIRE: BRITISH IMPERIAL CIVIL AVIATION, 1919-39
Written by Gordon Pirie
Published by Manchester University Press
in 2009
ISBN: 9780719041112
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- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
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AIR EMPIRE: BRITISH IMPERIAL CIVIL AVIATION, 1919-39
Written by Gordon Pirie.
Stock no. 2139412
1st.
2009.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Red boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780719041112.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- General Editor's Introduction
- 1. Introduction
- Part I Looking Up
- 2. Ideas and initiatives
- 3. Empire airway pioneering
- 4. Conferring and agitating
- Part II Talking Up
- 5. Organising Empire civil aviation
- 6. Route reconnaissance
- 7. Propagating Empire aviation
- Part III Holding Up
- 8. Trunk route development
- 9. Route organisation
- 10. Eastern crescent
- 11. African arc
- Part IV Shoring Up
- 12. Arguing about Imperial Airways
- 13. Reconfiguring Empire aviation
- 14. Transformation
- 15. Conclusion
- Index