Index

CONTENTS

acknowledgments ix

Introduction
AERIAL AFTERMATHS 1

1. Surveying Wartime Aftermaths
THE FIRST MILITARY SURVEY OF SCOTLAND 34

2. Balloon Geography
THE EMOTION OF MOTION IN
AEROSTATIC WARTIME 68

3. La Nature à Coup d’Oeil
“SEEING ALL” IN EARLY PANORAMAS 104

4. Mapping “Mesopotamia”
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN
EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRAQ 138

5. The Politics of the Sensible
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY’S
WARTIME AFTERMATHS 180

Afterword
SENSING DISTANCE 207

notes 217
works cited 255
index 277