Guiding the Space Age from the ground up: Pan Am, Cold War and guided missiles

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-245

  Hartt, Christopher M ^a   Mills, Albert J ^a   Mills, Jean Helms ^a   Durepos, Gabrielle ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaeo genealogical historiography; Cold War; Discursive condition; Pan American Airways; Space Age

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249106790     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935909337470     Document Type: Article

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