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
Gordon Pirie is Deputy Director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town
'In all, this is a fascinating view of a bygone era.'
Airways, 1 July 2013
'In this book, Gordon Pirie has managed to give readers the
next-best thing by offering an entertaining and comprehensive study
of the unique perspective on the twentieth-century British Empire
offered by flying.'
John McAleer, H-Empire, H-Net Reviews. May 2014
'In this highly engaging and helpfully illustrated account of
British Imperial aviation in the 1930s, Gordon Pirie builds on his
near-unparalleled knowledge of inter-war British air services to
expertly interweave an engrossing narrative history with a critical
analysis of the academic and cultural significance of Britain's
growing aerial aspirations and influence.'
Lucy Budd, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2014.
'... a worthy successor to Pirie's earlier Air Empire ... makes him
the acknowledged expert on British imperial aviation .... It
deserves a place on the bookshelves of the aviation historian as
much as the scholar of Empire - indeed of anyone interested in the
cultural upheavals of the 1930s'.
Peter Lyth, Journal of Transport History 34(2) (2013), pp.
218-220.
'This highly original and readable book is to be recommended to
anyone interested in the history of air transport, and to scholars
concerned with the culture and mentality of colonialism.'
Marc Dierikx, Journal of Transport Geography, 28 (2013), p. 214
'... another entertaining and enlightening study ...'
JE Hoare, Asian Affairs, 2013
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