Clipping the Clouds : How Air Travel Changed the World

by Dierikx, M. L. J.

• ISBN13: 9780275989101
• ISBN10: 0275989100
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Marc Dierikx is Program Director of Development Cooperation Studies at the Institute of Netherlands History, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Heroics Flying as an Icon of the Modern Age, 1919-1945

Technology Air Transport around the World, 1945-1961

USAGE: The Rise and Fall of the Jet Set, 1961-1977

EFFECTS: Global Travel for All, 1977

Bibliography

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