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Author Fritzsche, Peter, 1959- author.

Title A nation of fliers : German aviation and the popular imagination / Peter Fritzsche
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1992
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Contents INTRODUCTION -- 1. GIANT AIRSHIPS AND WORLD POLITICS -- 2. THE IMAGE OF THE WAR ACE -- 3. GLIDING AND THE REVIVAL OF NATIONALISM -- 4. MODERNIST VISIONS, NATIONAL DREAMS -- 5. THE NAZI DISCIPLINE OF AIRMINDEDNESS -- ABBREVIATIONS
Summary Annotation Shows how the fascination of the German people with flight combined idealized notions of vitality and modernity with symbols of conquest over the natural and political worlds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Analysis Aviation History
Germany
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index
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Subject Aeronautics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism and technology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
TRANSPORTATION -- Aviation -- History.
Aeronautics
Nationalism and technology
Luftfahrt
Gesellschaft
Luchtvaart.
Luchtmacht.
Populariteit.
Nationalisme.
Germany
Deutschland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 91016108
ISBN 067460122X
9780674601222
9780674037380
0674037383