Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above

by Caren Kaplan

Book Overview

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. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822370174
• ISBN13: 9780822370178
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"