Peter Thompson

The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany

Visions of Chemical Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

A history of the gas mask in Germany from first use in combat in 1915 to the eve of the Second World War. Peter Thompson traces how the development and proliferation of chemical protective technologies like the gas mask produced new subjective relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009314848
• ISBN-10: 100931484X
• Artikelnr.: 72175136

Autorenporträt

Peter Thompson is Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The structures of violence: Fritz Haber and the institutionalization of gas warfare
2. The man in the rubber mask: World War I and the development of the modern gas mask
3. The first 'chemical subjects': soldiers encounters with the gas mask in World War I
4. The limits of sympathy: the medical treatment of poison gas during and after World War I
5. Atmos(fears): the poison gas debates in the Weimar Republic
6. Technologies of fate: cultural and intellectual prophesies of the future gas war
7. Synthesizing the 'Nazi chemical subject': gas masks, personal armoring, and vestiary discipline in the Third Reich
8. Prophets of poison: industrialized murder in the gas chambers of the Holocaust
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.