Aerial Aftermaths

Aerial Aftermaths Wartime from Above - Next Wave

Hardback (05 Jan 2018)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780822370086
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Imprint: Duke University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 358.454
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 312
Weight: 381g
Height: 210mm
Width: 150mm
Spine width: 22mm