The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla : The Worldwide Fundraising Campaign for the British Flying Services in the First World War

ISBN-13: 9783838210216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 412 str.

Hall, Margaret

Recenzje

The First World War produced social and cultural, diplomatic and financial repercussions far beyond the history of combat itself. Historians have become increasingly interested in these further dimensions of this Great War. Margaret Hall here reveals the remarkable story of the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla and the many other organisations, such as the League of Patriotic Britons Overseas, associated with it. Fundraising for the war effort and for the supply of the wholly new technology of fighting aircraft spanned almost the entire Anglophone globe, and beyond. Patriotic sentiments combined with the complex nature of the constituents of the British Empire ensured that money flowed in from the Dominions, Crown Colonies, Protectorates, and also those places where the British pulled the economic levers in territories of informal empire. The range of sources used by Hall is equally extensive and her capacity to understand an extraordinary range of imperial contexts, ethnicities and individuals is remarkable. The book adds a whole new facet to a full understanding of the British war effort. John M. MacKenzie, University of Lancaster.

O autorze

Margaret Hall studied Anthropology at London University and Area studies at SOAS University of London. Publication on Mozambique's history since its independence.