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Sovereign Skies : The Origins of American Civil Aviation Policy
Author
Title
Sovereign Skies : The Origins of American Civil Aviation Policy / Sean Seyer.
ISBN
9781421440545
9781421440538
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (312 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"This work is a history of US aviation regulation in the interwar period of the early twentieth century. The author presents the Air Commerce Act as the institutionalization of a specific American regulatory ideology that arose in response to the technological nature of the airplane, the US Constitution, and the Paris Convention of 1919"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Hagley library studies in business, technology, and politics
Contents
Where does the regulatory power lie? Transportation and federalism before World War I
World War I and the internationalization of American aviation policy
Debating the administrative framework for federal control
The struggle for legislation
The need for regulatory compatibility
Shattered expectations : an air convention for the western hemisphere.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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