Biographical note: Jenifer Van Vleck is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. Main description: 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 feder…
This book presents the central role that commercial aviation played in the United States' rise to global preeminence in the twentieth century. Commercial giants such as Pan American World Airways accelerated the global circulation of U.S. capital, consumer goods, technologies, w…
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 ide…