Books

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Mexican Icarus

Mexican Icarus

Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity, 1928-1960

An Interdisciplinary History of Aviation and Aviation Symbolism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

The Airway to Everywhere

The Airway to Everywhere

A History of All American Aviation, 1937–1953

This book chronicles the formation and history of All American Aviation, an early pioneer of commercial avaition, and air mail carrier.

The Imagined Empire

The Imagined Empire

Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe

The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The technological marvel highlighted celebrations of French military victory against Britain and ignited a balloon mania that swept across Europe at the end of the Enlightenment. This frenzy for balloon experiments fundamentally altered the once elite audience for science by bringing aristocrats and commoners together. This book explores how this flying machine not only expanded the audience for science but also inspired utopian dreams of a republican monarchy that would obliterate social boundaries. The balloon was a people-machine that unified and mobilized the people of France, who imagined an aerial empire that would bring glory to the French nation.

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