ISBN:
9780199334803
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9780199334797
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019933479X
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 376 S.
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Ill.
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22 cm
Series Statement:
Critical war studies series
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
Air warfare Case studies
;
Air power Case studies
;
Visual perception Political aspects
;
Perspective (Philosophy)
;
War (Philosophy)
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Militarism
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Violence
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Human territoriality
;
National security
;
Geopolitics
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Luftaufklärung
;
Luftkrieg
;
Kriegführung
;
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"A series of in-depth accounts of 'the view from above' in shaping notions of territory, security and conflict"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Visual Culture and Verticality
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The Balloon Prospect : Aerostatic Observation and the Emergence of Militarised Aeromobility
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Lines of Descent
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Aerial Surveying, Geopolitical Competition and the Falkland Islands Dependency Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE 1955/7)
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Networks, Nodes and De-Territorialised Battlespace : The Scopic Regime of Rapid Dominance
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Photomosaics : Mapping the Front, Mapping the City
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SECTION TWO. AERIAL AESTHETICS, DISTORTION AND THE VIEW FROM BELOW ; "Concealing the Crude" : Airmindedness and the Camouflaging of Britain's Oil Installations, 1936/9
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Flying into the Unknown : Cinematic Cultures of War and the Aesthetics of Disappearance
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Project Transparent Earth and the Autoscopy of Aerial Targeting : The Visual Geopolitics of the Underground
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AFP-731 or The Other Night Sky : An Allegory
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SECTION THREE. FROM CLOSE TO REMOTE ; The Pain of Love : The Invention of Aerial Surveillance in British Iraq
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Targeting Affective Life From Above : Morale and Airpower
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Ecologies of the Wayward Drone
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Satellite Images, Security and the Geopolitical Imagination
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