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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aVan Vleck, Jenifer _eautore
245	1	0	_aEmpire of the Air : _bAviation and the American Ascendancy / _cJenifer Van Vleck.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2013]
264		4	_c©2013
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336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_t Frontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction: The Logic of the Air -- _t1. The Americanization of the Airplane -- _t2. Good Neighbors Are Close Neighbors -- _t3. Global Visions, National Interests -- _t4. "America's Lifeline to Africa" -- _t5. From Open Door to Open Sky -- _t6. Mass Air Travel and the Routes of the Cold War -- _t7. The Jet Age and the Limits of American Power -- _tConclusion: "Empires Rise and Empires Fall" -- _tSources and Abbreviations -- _tNotes -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aJenifer Van Vleck's fascinating history reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth century. As U.S. military and economic influence grew, the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to deliver American power across the globe and to sell the idea of the "American Century" to the public at home and abroad. The airplane promised to extend the frontiers of the United States "to infinity," as Pan American World Airways president Juan Trippe said. As it accelerated the global circulation of U.S. capital, consumer goods, technologies, weapons, popular culture, and expertise, few places remained distant from Wall Street and Washington. Aviation promised to secure a new type of empire--an empire of the air instead of the land, which emphasized access to markets rather than the conquest of territory and made the entire world America's sphere of influence. By the late 1960s, however, foreign airlines and governments were challenging America's control of global airways, and the domestic aviation industry hit turbulent times. Just as the history of commercial aviation helps to explain the ascendance of American power, its subsequent challenges reflect the limits and contradictions of the American Century.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650		0	_aAeronautics and state _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAeronautics, Commercial _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aAeronautics, Commercial _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aAeronautics, Commercial _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aGlobalization.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726246
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