Format:
1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:
9780190248918
Content:
This book examines technology, modern identity, and history-making in Peru through the country's relationship with aviation.
Content:
Cover -- The Rarified Air of the Modern -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Airplanes and Historical Horizons on the Periphery -- 1. Modernity's Surprise Landing in the Andes, 1910-1911 -- 2. Peruvian Air Farce, 1919-1930 -- 3. Flying "Cholo" -- 4. High Technology in the Jungle -- 5. The Window Seat of Modernity -- 6. When Technology Bombs -- Epilogue: Andeans and Airplanes after 1950 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190248901
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hiatt, Willie The rarified air of the modern New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780190248901
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
Peru
;
Luftfahrt
;
Geschichte
