Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity

Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period.

Author: Fernando Esposito
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/30/2015
Pages: 419
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781137362988

About the Author

Fernando Esposito is Lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.