Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imageryâ from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military dronesâ to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce military power and foster positive political connections.
Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imageryâ from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military dronesâ to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce military power and foster positive political connections.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author and editor of several books including Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, also published by Duke University Press.
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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
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
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