Ascending Republic : the ballooning revival in nineteenth-century France /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 386 pages : illustration (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262549806 0262549808 |