The gas mask in interwar Germany : visions of chemical modernity / Peter Thompson.
"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. Recounti...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- The Structures of Violence: Fritz Haber and the Institutionalization of Gas Warfare
- The Man in the Rubber Mask: World War I and the Development of the Modern Gas Mask
- The First "Chemical Subjects": Soldiers Encounters with the Gas Mask in World War I
- The Limits of Sympathy: The Medical Treatment of Poison Gas During and After World War I
- Atmos(fears): The Poison Gas Debates in the Weimar Republic
- Technologies of Fate: Cultural and Intellectual Prophesies of the Future Gas War
- Synthesizing the "Nazi Chemical Subject": Gas Masks, Personal Armoring, and Vestiary Discipline in the Third Reich
- Prophets of Poison: Industrialized Murder in the Gas Chambers of the Holocaust.