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Author:
Henning, Lori A., author.
Title:
Harnessing the airplane : American and British cavalry responses to a new technology, 1903-1939 / Lori A. Henning.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xi, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
United States.--Cavalry--Cavalry--Drill and tactics.
Great Britain.--Army--Drill and tactics.--Drill and tactics.
United States.--Cavalry--Cavalry--History--20th century.
Great Britain.--Army--History--History--20th century.
United States.--Air Corps--Air Corps--History--20th century.
Great Britain.--Royal Air Force--History--20th century.
Great Britain.--Army.
Great Britain.--Royal Air Force.
United States.--Air Corps.--Air Corps.
United States.--Cavalry.--Cavalry.
Notes:
"This book examines the ramifications of technological innovation and its role in the fraught relationship that developed between traditional ground units and emerging air forces in the American and British armies during the early twentieth-century."--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
State of affairs -- Early response to heavier-than-air flight: threats in the press and cavalry reaction, 1903-1917 -- Developing a relationship in the 1920s -- National economy: aviation versus the cavalry -- Autogiros and mechanization: the 1930s.
ISBN:
0806161841
9780806161846
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1045670543
LCCN:
2018027410
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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