Airplane in American Culture

Name: Airplane in American Culture
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ISBN: 9780472068333

ISBN-10: 0472068334

ISBN-13: 9780472068333

Edition: 2003

Authors: Dominick A. Pisano

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 10/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Acknowledgments


New Directions in the History of Aviation



The Airplane and the American Experience



The Airplane: Public Perception


The Greatest Show Not on Earth: The Confrontation between Utility and Entertainment in Aviation



The Man Nobody Knows: Charles A. Lindbergh and the Culture of Celebrity



The Airplane: Race and Gender


"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



"Who Says It's a Man's World?": Women's Work and Travel in the First Decades of Flight



Experiment in the Cockpit: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II



The Airplane: Perceptions of the Landscape, Literature, and Art


"The Surly Bonds of Earth": Images of the Landscape in the Work of Some Aviator/Authors, 1910-1969



The Airplane and American Literature



"Our Future Is in the Air": Aviation and American Art



The Airplane and the Culture of War


Transforming Technology in the Army Air Corps, 1920-1940: Technology, Politics, and Culture for Strategic Bombing



"Peace Is Our Profession": The Bombers Take Over



Stick and Rudder University: Training and the Creation of the Flight Suit Officer



Bibliographic Essay


Contributors


Index