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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	De Oliveira, Patrick Luiz Sullivan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2025].
Subjects:	Ballooning > France > History > 19th century. Hot air balloons > History > 19th century.

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