Peter Thompson

The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of World War II, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies such as the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management, and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781009314824
• ISBN-10: 1009314823
• Artikelnr.: 66226159

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.