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Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Aviation: Passengers, Pilots, Publicity

Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Aviation: Passengers, Pilots, Publicity

Pirie, Gordon

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 95

Sports GeneralAviationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0719086825
ISBN13: 9780719086823
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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