"Traces how aeronauts navigated the interstices of politics, culture, science, and gender to repopularize the hot air balloon, an artifact that had fallen in status since its invention. The author shows how French civil society cultivated popular enthusiasm for flight decades before the advent of the airplane, establishing France as the center of pre-World War I aeronautical culture"--
"Traces how aeronauts navigated the interstices of politics, culture, science, and gender to repopularize the hot air balloon, an artifact that had fallen in status since its invention. The author shows how French civil society cultivated popular enthusiasm for flight decades before the advent of the airplane, establishing France as the center of pre-World War I aeronautical culture"--
Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira is Assistant Professor of History at IE University in Madrid, Spain, and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Old Rendered Modern Part I: Breathing New Air into the Balloon 1 A Balloon’s-Eye View of the Nineteenth Century 2 The Siege of Paris and the Balloon’s Redemption Part II The Airminded Republic 3 Martyrs Made in the Sky: Republican Aeronautical Science and Sacrificial Patriotism 4 The Belle Époque Aloft: Aristocratic Modernity and the Spectacle of Ballooning in the Press 5 Imperial Skies: Colonial Anxiety and Territorial Overstretch in Africa and Indochina 6 Making le petit Santos: Technological Cosmopolitanism and Celebrity in the Atlantic World Part III: The Soaring Republic 7 Becoming the “Winged Nation”: From Lighter-than-Air to Heavier-than-Air Flight Notes Archives and Libraries Consulted Works Cited Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Old Rendered Modern Part I: Breathing New Air into the Balloon 1 A Balloon’s-Eye View of the Nineteenth Century 2 The Siege of Paris and the Balloon’s Redemption Part II The Airminded Republic 3 Martyrs Made in the Sky: Republican Aeronautical Science and Sacrificial Patriotism 4 The Belle Époque Aloft: Aristocratic Modernity and the Spectacle of Ballooning in the Press 5 Imperial Skies: Colonial Anxiety and Territorial Overstretch in Africa and Indochina 6 Making le petit Santos: Technological Cosmopolitanism and Celebrity in the Atlantic World Part III: The Soaring Republic 7 Becoming the “Winged Nation”: From Lighter-than-Air to Heavier-than-Air Flight Notes Archives and Libraries Consulted Works Cited Index
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