| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918–1947. By Janet R. Daly Bednarek. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. viii, 226 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-130-9.)

Since the beginnings of motorized flight in 1903, air transport has become one of the backbones of long-distance travel and a key factor in the globalization process that has typified the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the importance of airports as nodes where different traffic modalities interconnect, their impact on the local or regional economy, and (especially in the United States) their spread and number, relatively few historians have studied airports seriously. Janet R. Daly Bednarek's groundbreaking book is therefore important in filling a gap in our understanding of the rise of the modern transport infrastructure. . . .

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