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  • 1 - Introduction

  • Susan R. Grayzel, Utah State University
  • Book:
    The Age of the Gas Mask
    Published online:
    21 July 2022
    Print publication:
    11 August 2022, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    Starting with popular memories of the civilian gas masks of the Second World War, this chapter argues that the emergence of this singular, material object signals the arrival of the civil defense state and its accompanying militarization of civilian life. It reveals the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of The Age of the Gas Mask, and shows how the gas mask connects the histories of both world wars, of combatants and civilians, of men and women, of metropole and colony, of the state and the individual, thus shedding new light on total war.