Barnstorming the Prairies How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest |
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| Author:
| Weems, Jason |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-7750-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $183.99 |
Book Description:
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Barnstorming the Prairies offers a panoramic vista of the transformative natureand power of the aerial vision that remade the Midwest in the wake of theairplane. Jason Weems explores how the cognitive and perceptual practices ofaerial vision helped to resymbolize the Midwestern landscape amid thetechnological change and social uncertainty of the early twentieth century.
Barnstorming the Prairies offers a panoramic vista of the transformative natureand power of the aerial vision that remade the Midwest in the wake of theairplane. Jason Weems explores how the cognitive and perceptual practices ofaerial vision helped to resymbolize the Midwestern landscape amid thetechnological change and social uncertainty of the early twentieth century.