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The airplane in American culture

The Airplane in American Culture explores the story of America's relationship with the airplane, from the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 to the present offering engaging and unique interpretations of the airplane's history in the United States. The distinguished contributors cover a range of topics, including the connections between flying, race and gender, aviation's role in forming perceptions of the landscape, it influence on literature and art, and its significance to the culture of war. Like no other book before it, The Airplane in American Culture places the airplane in its full social, cultural, and interdisciplinary context
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2003
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780472098330, 9780472068333, 0472098330, 0472068334
52520372
New directions in the history of aviation / Dominick A. Pisano
The airplane and the American experience / Roger Bilstein
The greatest show not on earth : the confrontation between utility and entertainment in aviation / Dominick A. Pisano
The man nobody knows : Charles A. Lindbergh and the culture of celebrity / Charles L. Ponce de Leon
"Great shadow in the sky" : the airplane in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the development of African American visions of aviation, 1921-1926 / Jill D. Snider
"Who says it's a man's world?" : women's work and travel in the first decades of flight / Suzanne L. Kolm
Experiment in the cockpit : the women airforce service pilots of World War II / Katherine Sharp Landdeck
"The surly bonds of earth" : images of the landscape in the work of some aviator/authors, 1910-1969 / Tom D. Crouch
The airplane and American literature / Lawrence Goldstein
"Our future is in the air" : aviation and American art / Gerald Silk
Transforming technology in the Army Air Corps, 1920-1940 : technology, politics, and culture for strategic bombing / Timothy Moy
"Peace is our profession" : the bombers take over / H. Bruce Franklin
Stick and rudder university : training and the creation of the flight suit officer / John Darrell Sherwood