Clipping the Clouds - Marc Dierikx

Clipping the Clouds

How Air Travel Changed the World

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2008
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4408-3608-4 (ISBN)
45,80 inkl. MwSt
Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for a specific period, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have become increasingly detached from national interests and state control, concluding with an overview of the current state of air travel, and a description of the role air transportation played in the creation of a global society.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is difficult to imagine our world without aircraft. Airplanes are everywhere, and rapid air transport has become one of the necessities of our time. Yet one of the peculiarities of powered flight is that it has stayed in the public focus for over a century. Clipping the Clouds looks at the history of aviation in a challenging new way, covering not just the technology, but the way aviation has interacted with society since its very beginnings.

Mixing in pop culture—each chapter opens and closes with an excerpt from a movie that depicts elements of air transport illustrating the chapter's theme—Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel since 1919. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for each of four chronological periods, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have become increasingly detached from national interests and state control, concluding with an overview of the current state of air travel and a description of the role air transportation has played in the creation of a global society.

MARC DIERIKX is Program Director of Development Cooperation Studies at the Institute of Netherlands History, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands. He has written numerous books and articles on air travel, airlines, and airports, including: Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography, and An Image of Freedom: The Netherlands and the United States, 1945 to the Present.

Introduction
Chapter One: Heroics Flying as an Icon of the Modern Age, 1919-1945
Chapter Two: Technology Air Transport around the World, 1945-1961
Chapter Three USAGE: The Rise and Fall of the Jet Set, 1961-1977
Chapter Four EFFECTS: Global Travel for All, 1977
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.6.2008
Reihe/Serie Moving through History: Transportation and Society
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 312 g
Themenwelt Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 1-4408-3608-6 / 1440836086
ISBN-13 978-1-4408-3608-4 / 9781440836084
Zustand Neuware
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