Jenifer Van Vleck: Empire of the Air: Aviation and American Ascendancy
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Channel: Yale University · 2015 · Education
Jenifer Van Vleck: Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy. Episode: February 4, 2015 Professor Van Vleck is an historian of 20th century U.S. and international history. Her research and teaching focus on U.S. foreign relations, with particular emphasis on the ways in which culture, technology, and private enterprise have shaped the United States’ role in the world. She is also interested in transnational approaches to the study of empire and imperialism, modernization, and globalization. We talk with Jenifer Van Vleck about Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy.
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