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02726aam a2200397 i 4500 001 0E61D0222FC611E7A3652FCCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170503010126 008 161123t20162016paua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016054047 020 $a 0822944650 020 $a 9780822944652 035 $a (OCoLC)951158235 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 050 00 $a TL618 $b .K56 2016 082 00 $a 303.48/32 $2 23 084 $a TRA002010 $a HIS010000 $a TRA002010 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Kim, Mi Gyung, $e author. 245 14 $a The imagined empire : $b balloon enlightenments in revolutionary Europe / $c Mi Gyung Kim. 264 1 $a Pittsburgh, Pa. : $b University of Pittsburgh Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xxv, 427 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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 ascent in Paris--a technological marvel witnessed by a diverse crowd that included Benjamin Franklin--highlighted celebrations of French military victory against Britain and ignited a balloon mania that swept across Europe at the end of the Enlightenment. This popular frenzy for balloon experiments, which attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators, fundamentally altered the once elite audience for science by bringing aristocrats and commoners together. The Imagined Empire explores how this material artifact, the flying machine, not only expanded the public for science and spectacle but inspired utopian dreams of a republican monarchy that would obliterate social boundaries. The balloon, Mi Gyung Kim argues, was a people-machine, a cultural performance that unified and mobilized the people of France, who imagined an aerial empire that would bring glory to the French nation. This critical history of ballooning considers how a relatively simple mechanical gadget became an explosive cultural and political phenomenon on the eve of the French Revolution"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Hot air balloons $x History $z Europe $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Ballooning $x History $z Europe $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Revolutions $z Europe $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Enlightenment. 650 7 $a SCIENCE / History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170503024152.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0E61D0222FC611E7A3652FCCDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search