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1 online resource (413 pages) |
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Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes; Abbreviations; Part Iâ#x80;#x94;How it began; Chapter 1: Introductionâ#x80;#x94;gifts for the Royal Navy, and the Patriotic League; Chapter 2: And for the Army, Vickers Gunbus Dominica, and a kite balloon â#x80;Œ; Chapter 3: The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla Takes Off, 1915â#x80;#x93;1916; Part IIâ#x80;#x94;Case Studies: The campaignâ#x80;#x99;s spread and development; Chapter 4: Press and personal networks: Canada and Newfoundland; Chapter 5: Sultan Seyyid Khalifa of Zanzibar and the Royal Naval Air Service |
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Chapter 6: Tropical Sugarcane Producers: Pacific, Indian Ocean, and CaribbeanChapter 7: Eastern outpostsâ#x80;#x94;bankers and philanthropists of Hong Kong; Chapter 8: The Malaya Air Fleet Fundâ#x80;#x94;the Straits Settlements and Malay states; Chapter 9: West Africa, and most particularly Gold Coast, and Hugh Clifford; Chapter 10: The Rhodesiasâ#x80;#x94;friends in high places, a Grey area?; Chapter 11: The Basuto nation, the British sovereign, and 25 Sopwith Camels; Chapter 12: Swaziland, Major Miller, the Union of South Africa, and Jan Smuts; Chapter 13: The Indian Empire: The subâ#x80;#x90;continent and Burma |
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Chapter 14: Birds of Ceylonâ#x80;#x94;a very strange campaign indeedChapter 15: Furthest ripples of the Great War reach Abyssinia and Siam; Chapter 16: Big and small donors: The Shanghai Race Club and Argentine Britons; Chapter 17: Charles Alma Baker and the Australian Air Squadrons Fund; Part IIIâ#x80;#x94;How it ended, and epilogue; Chapter 18: New Zealand and Britainâ#x80;#x99;s aeroplane gifts to the Dominions; Chapter 19: Cast list: minorities, colonials, â#x80;#x98;subject peoplesâ#x80;#x99; and native rulers; Chapter 20: The orchestration of supportâ#x80;#x94;the British Empireâ#x80;#x99;s last curtain call?; Annexes |
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Annex I: The Overseas ClubAnnex II: The Patriotic League of Britons Overseas; Annex III: The Imperial Air Fleet Committee; Annex IV: Procedural correspondence and instructions; Endnotes; Bibliography Iâ#x80;#x94;Primary Sources:; Bibliography IIâ#x80;#x94;Secondary Sources:; Index |
| Summary |
A great wave of fundraising patriotic associations followed in the wake of Great Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, at home but also right across the empire. The most successful public campaign of all was launched in London at the beginning of 1915. Known as the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla, the scheme aimed to attract contributions towards aircraft production costs from throughout the British Empire. Any country, locality, or community that provided sufficient funds for an entire aeroplane could have it named after them. It was promised that when the machine crashed or was shot down, the name would be transferred to a new one of the same type. Margaret Hall examines the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla as a facet of imperial history. She analyzes the fundraising efforts in Canada and Newfoundland; the Zanzibar Protectorate; Fiji, Mauritius, and the Caribbean; Hong Kong; the Malay states and Straits Settlements; West Africa, especially Gold Coast; Southern Rhodesia; Basutoland; Swaziland and the Union of South Africa; the Indian empire and Burma; (British subjects in) independent Abyssinia and Siam; in the Shanghai International Settlement, and the British community of Argentina; Australia; and New Zealand. This remarkable and detailed book discusses the propaganda and counter-subversion usages of the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla'and what the support for the imperial war effort reveals about contemporary national and regional identities and aspirations |
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Print version record |
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History.
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY / Military / World War I.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3838270215 |
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9783838270210 |
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