Mi Gyung Kim

The Imagined Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The technological marvel highlighted celebrations of French military victory against Britain and ignited a balloon mania that swept across Europe at the end of the Enlightenment. This frenzy for balloon experiments fundamentally altered the once elite audience for science by bringing aristocrats and commoners together. This book explores how this flying machine not only expanded the audience for science but also inspired utopian dreams of a republican monarchy that would obliterate social boundaries. The balloon was a people-machine that unified and mobilized the people of France, who imagined an aerial empire that would bring glory to the French nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981954
• Artikelnr.: 48145574

Autorenporträt

Mi Gyung Kim is professor of history at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution.