Drawing on his knowledge of the technical aspects of civil aviation, Alan P. Dobson's history of the international aviation system, from 1945 to the present day, stresses the hitherto unacknowledged role Franklin D. Roosevelt played in implementing the principles that came to govern the entire global aviation system. ALAN DOBSON is Professor of Politics at the University of Dundee, UK. INDICE: Two Challenges:Roosevelt and Civil Aviation - Roosevelt's Inheritance - An Uneasy Start: Civil Aviation 1933-1937 - The Passage of the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act - The Challenges of International Aviation 1933-1939 - The Coming of War: Policies, Preparations and More Reorganization 1939-1941 - Forming US International Aviation Policy December 1941 bMay 1943 - Of Subordinates and the President - American Triumph, Roosevelt's Loss and the 'Burlesque' of Chicago - Roosevelt's Legacy
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10666-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 292
- Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés