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Pages: 215
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Categories: Social Science
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Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2019 Sharon Stephens Pr
Empire of the Air
Language: en
Pages: 607
Authors: Tom Lewis
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff—whose imagination and dreams turned
Empire of the Air
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Jenifer Van Vleck
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Jenifer Van Vleck's fascinating history reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth
Air Empire
Language: en
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Authors: Gordon Pirie
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'Air Empire' is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. It uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers
An Empire of Air and Water
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Siobhan Carroll
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-04 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or