Air empire

Air empireAir empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919 20 were flag waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britains development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions.

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Nietzsche and Irish Modernism deftly traces the circulation of the German philosopher’s ideas in Irish culture during the early years of the twentieth century

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With support from experts in Canadian studies

This book identifies a Gothic mode in representations of the practice in literature

He examines the evolution of five qualitatively different strategies

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framing labour NGOs’ activism as centred on contestation of migrant workers’ citizenship in China

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Several new readings

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