Susan R. Grayzel (Utah State University)

The Age of the Gas Mask

How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War

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Produktbeschreibung

This vivid and accessible history of the civilian gas mask from the years 1915-1945 reveals the shocking consequences of modern, total war and how ordinary civilians learned to face its terrors. It demonstrates the profound impact of new technologies of warfare on imperial Britain's culture, politics, and society.

Produktdetails

• Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491273
• ISBN-10: 1108491278
• Artikelnr.: 63397077

Autorenporträt

Susan R. Grayzel is Professor of History at Utah State University. Her previous publications include Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999), At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (2012), and the co-edited volume Gender and the Great War (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Inventing an object for modern conflict: The gas mask in war and peace, 1915-1929
3. Defending civilians: Developing the gas mask in Britain and its empire, c. 1930-1936
4. Unveiling the gas mask: Designs and dissent, 1936-1938
5. Curating the good citizen: The gas mask goes to war, 1939-1941
6. Facing wartime: The civilian gas mask's rise and fall, 1941-1945
7. Conclusion
Epilogue: Five brief ways of looking at a gas mask.