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Author:   Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780262549806

ISBN 10:   0262549808
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   10 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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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