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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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
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Table of Contents:
- A balloon's-eye view of the nineteenth century
- The siege of Paris and the balloon's redemption
- Martyrs made in the sky : republican aeronautical science and sacrificial patriotism
- The Belle Époque aloft : aristocratic modernity and the spectacle of ballooning in the press
- Imperial skies : colonial anxiety and territorial overstretch in Africa and Indochina
- Making le petit santos : technological cosmopolitanism and celebrity in the Atlantic world
- Becoming the "winged nation" : from lighter-than-air to heavier-than-air flight.