Caren Kaplan

Aerial Aftermaths

Wartime from Above

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Produktbeschreibung

Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery—from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones—to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce military power and foster positive political connections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370086
• ISBN-10: 0822370085
• Artikelnr.: 47616300

Autorenporträt

Caren Kaplan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Aerial Aftermaths  1
1. Surveying Wartime Aftermaths: The First Military Survey of Scotland  34
2. Balloon Geography: The Emotion of Motion in Aerostatic Wartime  68
3. La Nature à Coup d'Oeil: "Seeing All" in Early Panoramas  104
4. Mapping "Mesopotamia": Aerial Photography in Early Twentieth-Century
Iraq  138
5. The Politics of the Sensible: Aerial Photography's Wartime Aftermaths 
180
Afterword. Sensing Distance  207
Notes  217
Works Cited  255
Index  277