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Ascending Republic : the ballooning revival in nineteenth-century France / Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira.

De Oliveira, Patrick Luiz Sullivan, author.
2025
GV762.5.F7
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Title
Ascending Republic : the ballooning revival in nineteenth-century France / Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira.
Author
De Oliveira, Patrick Luiz Sullivan, author.
ISBN
9780262380812 (epub)
0262380811
9780262380805 (pdf)
0262380803
9780262549806 (paperback)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
GV762.5.F7
Dewey Decimal Classification
797.5/1094409034
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The MIT Press
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Ascending Republic
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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.

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