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Acknowledgments		ix
Introduction: Visions of the Sublime		1	(5)
Balloons into Dirigibles		6	(34)
The Floating State		7	(8)
From Enthusiasm to Obsession: The First Zeppelin		15	(10)
Building a Zeppelin Culture		25	(9)
Collapse and Recovery		34	(6)
The Machine above the Garden: Airship Culture in Imperial Germany		40	(31)
``Zeppelinism`` and Its Expressions		41	(9)
How German Is It?		50	(6)
Finding a Use for the Airship		56	(15)
Zeppelin Myth and Reality in the Great War		71	(39)
Zeppelinitis		72	(3)
Technology and War Planning		75	(13)
Demonizing the Dirigible		88	(11)
Fantasy and Fact of Zeppelin Operations		99	(11)
The Airship as a Business Tool in Weimar Culture		110	(37)
Rescuing the Airship from Oblivion		111	(13)
Nostalgia and Fund-raising		124	(8)
Symbol in the Best and Worst of Times		132	(15)
Ideologies of Science and Adventure: The Arctic Airship		147	(25)
Polar Dreams		148	(6)
Conflicting Projects		154	(9)
Selling Science as Entertainment		163	(9)
Political Zeppelinism: Manipulating Airship Culture, 1933--1939		172	(32)
Nazifying the Airship		173	(13)
Airship Travel Comes of Age		186	(9)
Helium, Hydrogen, and Humble Endings		195	(9)
Conclusion		204	(7)
List of Abbreviations		211	(2)
Notes		213	(60)
Essay on Sources and Methods		273	(14)
Index		287

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