{"product_id":"flight-culture-and-the-human-experience-9781648433078","title":"Flight Culture and the Human Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003e Adapted from the 55th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series held in 2021, \u003ci\u003eFlight Culture and the Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the myriad ways aviation has transformed ideas, cultures, and societies across time and around the globe. In bringing together seven established and emerging scholars to explore little known chapters in the history of aviation, this collection transports readers back to \"a time when flight was new, while opening analytical paths for interpreting the future.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Following an introduction, selections include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Utopian Machine: Lighter-than-Air Flight and Romantic Socialism in Nineteenth Century France \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The British Mechanic at War and Aircraft Innovation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Gender, Race, and Heroic Aviation in Interwar Argentina \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Civil Air Transport and the Colonial Context in the Interwar Period \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Détroyattaboy: Michel Détroyat and the 1936 National Air Race \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chasing the Future: Why US Airports Seem Always Under Construction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Selling the Fighter Pilot's Dream Machines: The F-15 and F-16 in the Public Eye \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e Students, scholars, and other readers interested in modern aviation and its historical context will appreciate \u003ci\u003eFlight Culture and the Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e SCOTT W. PALMER is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eDictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eScience, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia's Great War and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705368871186,"sku":"9781648433078","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d8d9c62-541d-4377-99c2-b4e3e9936f5c.jpg?v=1762346270","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flight-culture-and-the-human-experience-9781648433078","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}