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Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery—from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones—to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce military power and foster positive political connections.
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Aerial Aftermaths 1
1. Surveying Wartime Aftermaths: The First Military Survey of Scotland 34
2. Balloon Geography: The Emotion of Motion in Aerostatic Wartime 68
3. La Nature à Coup d'Oeil: "Seeing All" in Early Panoramas 104
4. Mapping "Mesopotamia": Aerial Photography in Early Twentieth-Century Iraq 138
5. The Politics of the Sensible: Aerial Photography's Wartime Aftermaths 180
Afterword. Sensing Distance 207
Notes 217
Works Cited 255
Index 277
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Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author and editor of several books including Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, also published by Duke University Press.
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Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery-from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones-to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce military power and foster positive political connections.
