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The rarified air of the modern : airplanes and technological modernity in the Andes / Willie Hiatt.
LIBRA TL525.P4 H53 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hiatt, Willie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics--Peru--History.
- Aeronautics.
- Technology and state--Peru.
- Technology and state.
- History.
- Peru.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 229 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- 1 Modernity's Surprise Landing in the Andes, 1910-1911 15
- 2 Peruvian Air Farce, 1919-1930 59
- 3 Flying "Cholo" 61
- 4 High Technology in the jungle 82
- 5 The Window Seat of Modernity 105
- 6 When Technology Bombs 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190248901
- 0190248904
- OCLC:
- 920551472
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