Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Flying through Time
Introduction: A People-Machine
Part I. Invention in Theatrical Polity
1. A Rupture of the Equilibrium
2. Balloon Transcripts
3. True Columbus
Part II. Philosophical Nation
4. Balloon Spectators
5. Fermentation and Discipline
6. Provincial Citizens and Their Nations
7. The Fall of a National Artifact
Part III. Material Empire
8. Modern Atlantis
9. Crossing the Channel
10. A Liminal Geography
Epilogue: Revolutionary Metamorphoses
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index