The Airplane in American Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472068334 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Pisano is Curator of the Aeronautics Department at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.. The first book of its kind, The Airplane in American Culture presents essays by distinguished contributors including historians, literary scholars, scholars of American studies, art historians, and museum professionals that explore a range of topics, including the connections between flying and race and gender; aviation's role in forming perceptions of the landscape; the airplane's significance to the culture of war; and the influence of flight on literature and art.A must-read collection for anyone fascinated by the airplane, The Airplane in American Culture represents a dramatic new approach to writing the history of aviation, and makes an important contribution to American social and cultural history.Dominick A. Few journeys have had as great an impact on American culture as Orville Wright's first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903—a twelve-second, one-hundred-twenty-foot trip that has captivated American thought and influenced American life ever since.Although countless books for aviation buffs have appeared since World War II, none has attempted to place the airplane in its full social, cultural, and interdisciplina
A publication for serious students of aviation and its history."--- Choice. "Professional historians and to hers will find this volume valuable. Especially useful to nonspecialists are the editor's contributions of an essay on the historiography of aviation history and the concise bibliographic essay that concludes the book
Daniel L. Berek said A Valuable Contribution to Aviation History. Most books on aircraft and aviation focus on a particular type, a single manufacturer, or an era, focusing on chronology or technical details (or both). Drawing on the tradition started by Joseph Corn ("The Winged Gospel") and Robert Wohl ("A Passion for Wings" and "The Spectacle of Flight"), this book examines aviation history from a cultural perspective. "The Airplane in American Culture" is an important contribution to this new and important field of study. This book differs from others in