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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Air empire
British imperial civil aviation, 1919–39
by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain's development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2021African cities and collaborative futures
Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics
by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Susan Parnell
This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability of African cities, as seen through local narratives of residents. Drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first-hand research, the contributions offer a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century. At a time when the future of the region as a whole will be determined in large part by its cities, the implications of these developments are profound. With case studies from cities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania, this volume explores how the rapid growth of African cities is reconfiguring the relationship between urban social life and its built forms. While the most visible transformations in cities today can be seen as infrastructural, these manifestations are cultural as well as material, reflecting the different ways in which the city is rationalised, economised and governed. How can we 'see like a city' in twenty-first-century Africa, understanding the urban present to shape its future? This is the central question posed throughout this volume, with a practical focus on how academics, local decision makers and international practitioners can collaborate to meet the challenge of rapid growth, environmental pressures and resource gaps.
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December 2000Das Experiment und die Metaphysik
Zur Auflösung der kosmologischen Antinomien
by Edgar Wind, Bernhard Buschendorf, Bernhard Buschendorf, Brigitte Falkenburg
Edgar Winds Habilitationsschrift von 1934 ist eine originelle Deutung der modernen Physik aus dem Umkreis des Neukantianismus und des amerikanischen Pragmatismus. Wind formuliert darin seine Theorie der „symbolischen Repräsentation“
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Air power and colonial control
by David Omissi
Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Sex, politics and empire
A postcolonial geography
by Richard Phillips
Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations.
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The ArtsSeptember 2024The renewal of post-war Manchester
Planning, architecture and the state
by Richard Brook
A compelling account of the project to transform post-war Manchester, revealing the clash between utopian vision and compromised reality. Urban renewal in Britain was thrilling in its vision, yet partial and incomplete in its implementation. For the first time, this deep study of a renewal city reveals the complex networks of actors behind physical change and stagnation in post-war Britain. Using the nested scales of region, city and case-study sites, the book explores the relationships between Whitehall legislation, its interpretation by local government planning officers and the on-the-ground impact through urban architectural projects. Each chapter highlights the connections between policy goals, global narratives and the design and construction of cities. The Cold War, decolonialisation, rising consumerism and the oil crisis all feature in a richly illustrated account of architecture and planning in post-war Manchester.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
Passengers, pilots, publicity
by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.
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March 1999Wind über den Wassern
Ein Feng-Shui-Roman
by Geok, Ang Chin / Übersetzt von Wolandt, Holger
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September 2016Die Olchis. Das Adventskalender-Hörbuch
by Erhard Dietl, Barbara Iland-Olschewski, Robert Missler, Benjamin Dittrich, Die Olchis, Frank Gustavus, Erhard Dietl
O du krötige … In Schmuddelfing soll es zu Weihnachten eine lebende Krippe auf dem Marktplatz geben. Klar, dass die Olchi-Kinder unbedingt mitmachen wollen. Doch leider haben sie statt "Krippe" nur "Gerippe" verstanden und rutschen – Muffelfurzteufel! – in gammeligen Fischgräten-Kostümen zusammen mit Olchi-Opa die Schneeberge hinunter zur Stadt. Dort erleben die drei ein olchiges Weihnachtsabenteuer nach dem anderen. Schleime-Schlamm und Käsefuß, was für ein Fest! Der große Olchi-Weihnachtsspaß in 24 Kapiteln. Mit olchigen Witzen und Weihnachtsliedern. Gelesen von Robert Missler
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August 2021Die Erben der Animox 1. Die Beute des Fuchses
by Aimée Carter, Peter Kaempfe, Die Erben der Animox, Animox
Der Kampf um die Welt der Animox geht weiter! Aimée Carter hat mit ihrem Fantasy-Abenteuer rund um die Animox einen Bestseller gelandet. Jetzt wird das super erfolgreiche Fantasy-Abenteuer in einer neuen Buch-Reihe fortgesetzt. Ein Jahr nach der finalen Schlacht der ersten Animox-Bände ist Simon Thorn 13 Jahre alt und leidet noch immer unter den Erinnerungen an den Kampf. Aus Angst, jemanden zu verletzen, schreckt er davor zurück, seine Fähigkeiten einzusetzen. Doch dann braucht ein Mädchen aus Europa dringend seine Hilfe: Ihre Schwester wurde von einer Rebellengruppe entführt. Und sie bleibt nicht die einzige … Hochspannung und packende Wendungen garantiert! Ein Kinderbuch für alle Mädchen und Jungen ab 10 Jahren.
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July 2018Die Olchis. Das Stinkersocken-Festessen und eine weitere Geschichte
by Erhard Dietl, Robin Brosch, Kay Poppe, Kay Poppe, Die Olchis, Ohrwürmchen, Frank Gustavus, Erhard Dietl
Neues aus Schmuddelfing: Mit 1.700 Jahren ist Urgroßtante Odele die Älteste in der Olchi-Sippe. Das muss gefeiert werden, schließlich hat sie eine wertvolle Stinkersocke zu vererben. Und die soll derjenige bekommen, der ihr das beste Essen kocht. - Bah: Schmuddelfings Straßen sind voller Müll. Da hat der Bürgermeister eine großartige Idee: Er schickt einfach die Olchis los, um all die Plastikverpackungen und klebrigen Kaugummis wegzufuttern. Doch plötzlich finden die Olchis auch an schicken Fahrrädern kulinarischen Gefallen. Enthält die Geschichten "Das große Stinkersocken-Festessen" und "Die Olchis räumen auf." Ungekürzte Lesungen mit Geräuschen und Musik. Ein krötiger Hörspaß für alle Olchi-Fans.
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January 2015Die Olchis. Ein Drachenfest für Feuerstuhl und andere Geschichten
by Erhard Dietl, Robert Missler, Kay Poppe, Kay Poppe, Die Olchis, Ohrwürmchen, Frank Gustavus, Erhard Dietl
Die Olchis aus Schmuddelfing sind grün, haben Hörner statt Ohren, wohnen auf einem Müllberg und lieben Matsch und Schlamm und Schleim. Als eines Tages ihr Drache Feuerstuhl ganz traurig ist, haben sie eine tolle Idee, um ihn wieder aufzuheitern: Sie feiern seinen Geburtstag und laden dazu ein paar Drachenfreunde ein. Das wird ein Fest! Und wenn am Abend die Olchi-Kinder nicht einschlafen können, erzählt Olchi-Opa von seiner Zeit als Taucher-Olchi im Meer, als Sternen-Olchi im Weltraum oder als Piraten-Olchi im Stillen Ozean. Von so vielen tollen Geschichten werden sogar die Olchi-Kinder krötig müde, kuscheln sich auf ihre Müffelmatratzen und schlafen sofort ein. Mit den Geschichten - "Die Olchis aus Schmuddelfing" - "Ein Drachenfest für Feuerstuhl" - "Olchi-Opas krötigste Abenteuer" Vorgelesen von Robert Missler und untermalt mit vielen Geräuschen und Musik
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