TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Vleck,Jenifer
TI  - Empire of the air: aviation and the American ascendancy 
SN  - 9780674726246
AV  - HE9803 .E475 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Pan American World Airways, Inc
KW  - History
KW  - Aeronautics, Commercial
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Aeronautics and state
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : the logic of the air --; The Americanization of the airplane --; Good neighbors are close neighbors --; Global visions, national interests --; "America's lifeline to Africa" --; From open door to open sky --; Mass air travel and the routes of the Cold War --; The jet age and the limits of American power --; Conclusion : "Empires rise and empires fall."; 2; b
N2  - Jenifer Van Vleck's Empire of the Air reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the U.S. ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth century, as the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to deliver American power across the globe and sell the idea of the "American Century" to the public at home and abroad
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