Jenifer Van Vleck

Jun 14, 2015

Empire of the Air

Aviation and the American Ascendancy

Harvard University Press 2013

purchase at bookshop.org [Re-posted with permission from Who Makes Cents?] Today's guest discusses the history of aviation and how this provides a lens to interpret the history of capitalism and U.S. foreign relations across the twentieth century. Amongst other topics, Jenifer Van Vleck tells us how the airline industry helped solve various political and logistical challenges for the U.S. government during World War II and how the airlines relied on the government and vice-versa. Jenifer Van Vleck is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. She is author of Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy (Harvard University Press, 2013).

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