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The age of the gas mask : how British civilians faced the terrors of total war / Susan R. Grayzel,...

Titre(s)
  • The age of the gas mask : how British civilians faced the terrors of total war / Susan R. Grayzel,...
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  • TheAge of the Gas Mask 9781108868068
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University press, 2022
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (XIV-273 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
ISBN
  • 978-1-108-49127-3
  • 1-108-49127-8
  • 978-1-108-81180-4
  • 1-108-81180-9
EAN
  • 9781108491273 rel.
Appartient à la collection
  • Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 2635-2117
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 358.340 941
Note sur le titre et les responsabilités
  • Titre provenant des métadonnées fournies par l'éditeur
Note sur disponibilité
  • Current Copyright Fee: GBP25.00 - 0
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 252-267. Notes bibliogr. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Inventing an object for modern conflict : the gas mask in war and peace, 1915-1929 Defending civilians : developing the gas mask in Britain and its Empire, c. 1930-1936 Unveiling the gas mask : designs and dissent, 1936-1938 Curating the good citizen : the gas mask goes to war, 1939-1941 Facing wartime : the civilian gas mask's rise and fall, 1941-1945 Conclusion Epilogue: Five brief ways of looking at a gas mask
Résumé ou extrait
  • "It was a bitterly cold evening, and I had just finished giving a talk that shared the glimmerings of a new research project that looked seriously at how the gas mask, a peculiar object that came into being in 1915, could elucidate what it meant to face total war. At that point, the project had begun by asking why many countries including Britain by 1939 to distribute tens of millions of gas masks as the primary means of protecting their inhabitants against the worst elements of modern war. After I had finished, an older man buttoning his coat and tying his woolen scarf around his neck, came up to me to report that my remarks had made him recall vividly some of his earliest fears from his childhood in England, when his brother would put on his gas mask and chase him around their house." (éditeur)
  • 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
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