Zeppelin!: Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801886341 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Guillaume de Syon is an associate professor of history at Albright College and a history research associate at Franklin and Marshall College.
De Syon analyzes the emergence and modification of the Zeppelin's 'popular imagination.' Theoretically his book is based on scholarly work on symbolic roles of technology, while empirically it draws upon a huge quantity of sources that in this respect have not been previously examined The author establishes very clearly that the Zeppelin was most effective on the symbolic and psychological level, whereas its practical potential was more limited De Syon's sound considerations inspire further discussions. De Syon uses interesting contemporary photographs and cartoons to support his argument. (Arnold W.L. (Joh
Friends of the machine believed that it would revolutionize commerce, carry scientists to otherwise inaccessible places, and deliver bombs with great accuracy. De Syon chronicles the various ways in which the airships were usedtransport, war, exploration, and propagandaand details the attempts by successive German governmentsautocratic, democratic, fascist to co-opt Count Zeppelin's invention. These phenomenal rigid, lighter-than-air craftthe invention of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838-1917)approached the size of a small village. Between 1900 and 1939, Germans saw
"UP SHIP" - ZEPPELIN E. E Pofahl In the INTRODUCTION the author notes " Germany in the first half of the twentieth century offers an especially valuable case study of the intersection of technology and culture." Readers often think of Zeppelin history solely in terms of the Hindenburg crash; but in Europe from 1908 to 1939, the Zeppelin was a powerful technological and cultural symbol that was manipulated during the Germany's Imperial, Weimar and Nazi eras for both political and business gain. The Zeppelin was a gigantic, magnificent machine and drew excited resp. Explores relationship between technology and culture false_prophet77 Impressive to onlookers, gigantic in scope, and obsolete almost as soon as it was invented, few things capture the zeitgeist of the previous fin-de-siecle as does the zeppelin. Guillaume De Syon, an obvious enthusiast of an earlier era of flight, does a superb job in exploring the social and cultural history of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's invention from its birth in the young nation of Germany to its death on the cusp of the Second World War.Well-researched and properly critical, De Syon traces the cultural impact of the rigid