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Aerial Aftermaths - Wartime from Above (Hardcover)
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Aerial Aftermaths - Wartime from Above (Hardcover)
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
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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.
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