Book contents
- The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
- Science in History
- The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 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”: Soldier 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
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2023
- The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
- Science in History
- The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 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”: Soldier 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
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- The Gas Mask in Interwar GermanyVisions of Chemical Modernity, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023