| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Canada and the United States

Janet R. Daly Bednarek. America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918–1947. (Centennial of Flight Series, number 1.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 226. $39.95.

Like the general public, historians pay little attention to the physical infrastructures supporting modern, urban societies. Recently, however, a number of scholars have begun to examine highway networks, urban sewer systems, downtown rail terminals, and municipal airports. Studying the origins, construction, development, and use of these facilities, it turns out, opens windows on the interaction of politics, city planning, cultural practices, and technological change. 1

One such work is Janet R. Daly Bednarek's monograph on American airports. Narrowly focused, it asks two questions: how did American airports become "municipal," owned and operated by cities rather than by national authorities as in many other parts of the world, and how did they also come to be federally funded and regulated? Covering the long generation, 1918–1947, Bednarek shows the emergence of the pattern of airport governance that still exists. . . .

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