The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War

ISBN-13: 9781108491273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 285 str.

Susan R. (Utah State University) Grayzel

Opis

Uncovers how a material object – the civilian gas mask – can reveal the power and limits of the modern state facing total war.

Recenzje

'Grayzel's impressive archival collection reveals the value of tracing one technological object as it moved from the battlefield onto civilian bodies and eventually into the minds of an entire generation.' Peter Thompson, Technology and Culture

Spis treści

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.