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Adapted from the 55th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series held in 2021, Flight Culture and the Human Experience 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."
Following an introduction, selections include:
Students, scholars, and other readers interested in modern aviation and its historical context will appreciate Flight Culture and the Human Experience.
SCOTT W. PALMER is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also the author of Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia and coeditor of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia's Great War and Revolution.
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