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AIR EMPIRE: BRITISH IMPERIAL CIVIL AVIATION, 1919-39

by Gordon Pirie

Published by Manchester University Press. 1st. 2009

Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. Red boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos.

ISBN: 9780719041112
Stock no. 2139412

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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

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