Format:
1 online resource (298 pages)
ISBN:
9780674037380
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 GIANT AIRSHIPS AND WORLD POLITICS -- The Miracle at Echterdingen -- The Meaning of the Zeppelin Craze -- Popular Nationalism and the Zeppelin -- To a Place in the Sun -- The Zeppelin in Combat -- 2 THE IMAGE OF THE WAR ACE -- Building the Ace -- The Folklore of the Ace -- Chevalier of the Skies? -- 3 GLIDING AND THE REVIVAL OF NATIONALISM -- Origins -- The Discovery of Thermals -- Small Nationalist Republics -- 4 MODERNIST VISIONS, NATIONAL DREAMS -- The Spectacle -- The Century's New Person -- Germany Reenvisioned -- A Nature Subordinate? -- The Geopolitical Eye -- 5 THE NAZI DISCIPLINE OF AIRMINDEDNESS -- Airmindedness and Community -- Educating an Airminded Generation -- Civilian Mobilization and Civil Defense -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674601215
Additional Edition:
Print version Nation of Fliers : German Aviation and the Popular Imagination
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fritzsche, Peter, 1959 - A nation of fliers Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 1992 ISBN 0674601211
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Luftfahrt
;
Geschichte 1908-1939
;
Deutschland
;
Luftfahrt
;
Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte 1908-1938
;
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