Air Power in South Africa, 1914-1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3206946 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tilman Dedering (0000-0001-5601-5891, University of South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451-465 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2015.1025334 |
| OpenAlex | W1524403405 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This article discusses three aspects of air power in South Africa during the period between the two world wars, each one intermeshing with debates about what kind of political and social space the Union could claim for itself beyond its borders on the continent. First, during the First World War and in its immediate aftermath the advance of air power raised the question of how the tense relations between Afrikaners and English speakers would be influenced by this new technology. Second, aviation offered new methods of control of the African majority and other recalcitrant groups. Third, the progress in aviation technology, compounded by the international tensions in the 1930s and European armed intervention in East Africa, alerted white South Africans to the perils of their diminished geographical isolation at the southern tip of the continent
Aviation · Development economics · Economics · Intervention (counseling · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · White (mutation · World War II · African history and culture studies · Engineering · History · Law · Medicine
Left Button Picture, Right Button Bomb
Blue Skies into White Space
Contested Liabilities
Airpower in the Union of South Africa's First World War campaign in German South West Africa
The Threat of Aerial Bombing in World War Two Lagos, 1938–1943
The Union Defence Force and the suppression of the Bondelswarts Rebellion, 1922
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |