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The Airplane and the Imperial City: A Brief History of Seattle and American Empire
Ist Teil von
Journal of urban history, 2024-05, Vol.50 (3), p.525-540
Ort / Verlag
Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This essay explores airplane manufacturing in twentieth-century Seattle to trace the correspondence between major developmental moments in the city’s history and broader transitional moments in American empire. In doing so, it argues that Seattle is best understood as an imperial city characterized by four ongoing features: extensive connections beyond the city’s nominal borders; sustained alliance between private commercial interests and the state that made such connections possible; a built environment of technological infrastructure made to serve that alliance; and labor forces, segmented by race, subject to the evolving needs of empire.