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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaplan, Caren, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Next wave (Duke University Press)
Subjects:
Photographic surveying > History.
Aerial photography > History.
War photography > History.
Photography, Military.
Phototopographie > Histoire.
Photographie aérienne > Histoire.
Photographie de guerre > Histoire.
Photographie militaire.
military photography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY / World
Aerial photography
Photographic surveying
Photography, Military
War photography
Luftaufklärung
Luftbild
Militär
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Aerial aftermaths
  • Surveying wartime aftermaths: the first military survey of Scotland
  • Balloon geography: the emotion of motion in aerostatic wartime
  • La nature, coup d'oeil: "seeing all" in early panoramas
  • Mapping "Mesopotamia": aerial photography in early twentieth-century Iraq
  • The politics of the sensible: aerial photography's wartime aftermaths
  • Afterword: Sensing distance.

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