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Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today - Softcover

Feigenbaum, Anna

 
9781784780265: Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today
Softcover
ISBN 10: 178478026X ISBN 13: 9781784780265
Verlag: Verso Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of "less-lethal" police force. In 2011, the year that protests exploded from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, tear gas sales tripled. Most tear gas is produced in the United States, and many images of protestors in Tahrir Square showed tear gas canisters with "Made in USA" printed on them, while Britain continues to sell tear gas to countries on its own human-rights blacklist.

An engrossing century-spanning narrative, Tear Gas is the first history of this weapon, and takes us from military labs and chemical weapons expos to union assemblies and protest camps, drawing on declassified reports and witness testimonies to show how policing with poison came to be.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anna Feigenbaum is a writer, researcher and educator working on communication and social change. She is co-author of the book Protest Camps, and her work has appeared in Vice, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera America, the Guardian, Salon, Financial Times, Open Democracy, New Internationalist, and Waging Nonviolence. She is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of media and Communications at Bournemouth University.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178478026X
ISBN 13 
9781784780265
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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