Aerial aftermaths : wartime from above / Caren Kaplan.
| Author/creator | Kaplan, Caren, 1955- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. |
| Copyright Date | ©2018 |
| Description | xiv, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Next wave : new directions in women's studies Next wave (Duke University Press) ^A521132 |
| Contents | Introduction: Aerial aftermaths -- Surveying wartime aftermaths: the first military survey of Scotland -- Balloon geography: the emotion of motion in aerostatic wartime -- La nature, coup d'oeil: "seeing all" in early panoramas -- Mapping "Mesopotamia": aerial photography in early twentieth-century Iraq -- The politics of the sensible: aerial photography's wartime aftermaths -- Afterword: Sensing distance. |
| Summary | From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places of war. Kaplan's investigation of the aerial arts of war-painting, photography, and digital imaging-range from England's surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion and early twentieth-century photographic mapping of Iraq to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Throughout, Kaplan foregrounds aerial imagery's importance to modern visual culture and its ability to enforce colonial power, demonstrating both the destructive force and the potential for political connection that come with viewing from above. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kaplan, Caren, 1955- Aerial aftermaths. Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 9780822372219 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2017028530 |
| ISBN | 9780822370086 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0822370085 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780822370178 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0822370174 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | TA593.2 .K375 2018 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |