Empire in the Air : Airline Travel and the African Diaspora /

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Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyExamines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industryEmpire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed lives along...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bhimull, Chandra D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2017]
Colección:Social Transformations in American Anthropology ; 1
Temas:
African diaspora > History > 20th century.
African diaspora-History-20th century.
Airlines > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Airlines-Great Britain-History-20th century.
Imperial Airways-History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Passing
  • Terminal
  • Introduction
  • Opening Up
  • Level
  • 1. Groundwork
  • Limit
  • 2. Ascent
  • Direction
  • Speedbird
  • 3. Speed
  • Uprising
  • 4. Planes
  • Air Craft
  • Oversees
  • 5. Routes
  • Lines
  • 6. Descent
  • Trails
  • Wake
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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