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Clipping the Clouds: How Air Travel Changed the World
Marc Dierikx
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Description for Clipping the Clouds: How Air Travel Changed the World
Hardback. Gives a chronological history of the evolution of air travel mixed with elements of pop-culture. This work 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. Series: Moving Through History: Transportation and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Moving Through History: Transportation and Society
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780275989101
SKU
V9780275989101
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Ref
99-5
About Marc Dierikx
MARC DIERIKX is Program Director of Development Cooperation Studies at the Institute of Netherlands History, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands. He has written numerous books and articles on air travel, airlines, and airports, including: Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography, and An Image of Freedom: The Netherlands and the United States, 1945 to the Present.
Reviews for Clipping the Clouds: How Air Travel Changed the World
The author correctly shows how the entwining of technology and public acceptance of the development of range and economy in airlines, together with the lowering of fairs by the introduction of coach/economy class in the late 1950s, followed by the development of intercontinental jets, led to a tremenduos jump in passengers carried. There is no comparable work, for boths its ... Read more