Britain's Imperial Air Routes 1918-1939
Author: Robin Higham
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2017-01-20
Total Pages: 312
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Air empire
Author: Gordon Pirie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-03-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1526118491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAir empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain’s development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.
Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
Author: Gordon Pirie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-02-01
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1526118475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The British Seaborne Empire
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780300103861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.
Britain's Imperial Air Routes 1918-1939
Author: Robin Higham
Publisher:
Published: 2015-09-19
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781781553701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis remarkable book pictures the growth of British civil air transport from its inception in 1910 through to the formation of Imperial Airways in 1934 and then the beginnings of British Overseas Airways Corporation. The author shows the impetus given to aircraft production by the First World War, and presents a careful account of the operational and financial fortunes of each of the four principal British airlines which began operations shortly thereafter. The fight against official apathy and lack of foresight on the part of the government, the campaign for subsidies and the struggle with foreign competition are interestingly presented. The development of the chosen-instrument concept in Great Britain is interestingly covered and the use of subsidies in this connection justified in order to place civil aviation on a firm financial base for the establishment of a great British airline to serve the Empire. The result was Imperial Airways, which soon found itself in the awkward position of being expected to be both a successful commercial company and the chosen instrument of imperial policy. The final emergence of British Overseas Airways was the result, and its organization marks the close of the period covered in this volume. Included in the book are comprehensive statistical appendices and a complete bibliography.
Britain's Imperial Air Routes 1918 to 1939
Author: Robin Higham
Publisher: Sunflower University Press
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780897450157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain's Informal Empire in the Middle East
Author: Daniel Silverfarb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0195039971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShowing how Britain tried--and failed--to maintain its political influence, economic ascendancy, and strategic position in Iraq after independence, this book presents a suggestive analysis of the possibilities and limitations of indirect rule by imperial powers in the Third World.
Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century
Author: Andrew Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-11-24
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 0192513575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain. The contributors explore different aspects of Britain's imperial experience as the empire weathered the storms of the two world wars, was subsequently dismantled, and then apparently was gone. How widely was the empire's presence felt in British culture and society? What was the place of imperial questions in British party politics? Was Britain's status as a global power enhanced or underpinned by the existence of its empire? What was the relation of Britain's empire to national identities within the United Kingdom? The chapters range widely from social attitudes to empire and the place of the colonies in the public imagination, to the implications of imperialism for demography, trade, party politics and political culture, government and foreign policy, the churches and civil society, and the armed forces. The volume also addresses the fascinating yet complex question of how, after the formal end of empire, the colonial past has continued to impinge upon our post-colonial present, as contributors reflect upon the diverse ways in which the legacies of empire are interpreted and debated in Britain today.
Sir Eric Geddes
Author: Keith Grieves
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780719023453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOman in the Twentieth Century
Author: J.E. Peterson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-12
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1317291735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOman was ruled by the Al Bu Sa’id for 250 years, and during this period the fortunes of the state varied considerably. But in July 1970, as a result of a palace coup, the state abruptly turned away from isolation and traditions of the past. The most obvious alteration was in the dramatic change in the outward appearance of the country, particularly as exemplified by the rejection of the long era of stagnation and the parallel emphasis on socio-economic development. In the political realm, however, the shifting balance of power and the rapid growth and diversification of the state’s administrative structure were based essentially on perennial themes in Omani politics. The interplay between four of these themes forms the basis of this study, first published in 1978. The role of the Sultan and the ruling family, the development of the administration, the exercise of tribal politics and the impact of external influences on the state are closely examined and the modifications they went in response to the various challenges of the twentieth century are discussed. The constant flux in the relative importance of each of these themes illustrates the fragile nature of the traditional Omani political system, for in the twentieth century the Al Bu Sa’id Sultanate found its precarious hold over the country challenged on a number of occasions. These challenges – ranging from the tribal and religious rebellion of 1913-20, to the Marxist-Leninist revolt in Dhufar – are also analysed in detail, together with the response of the Sultanate to their impact.
