Aerial Aftermaths : Wartime from Above /

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From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaplan, Caren (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2017]
Colección:Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies : 44
Temas:
Aerial photography > History.
Photographic surveying > History.
Photography, Military.
War photography > History.
HISTORY / World.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction AERIAL AFTERMATHS
  • 1. Surveying Wartime Aftermaths THE FIRST MILITARY SURVEY OF SCOTLAND
  • 2. Balloon Geography THE EMOTION OF MOTION IN AEROSTATIC WARTIME
  • 3. La Nature à Coup d'Oeil "SEEING ALL" IN EARLY PANORAMAS
  • 4. Mapping "Mesopotamia" THE EMERGENCE OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRAQ
  • 5. The Politics of the Sensible AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY'S WARTIME AFTERMATHS
  • Afterword SENSING DISTANCE
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index

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