Second World War British Military Camouflage

Designing Deception

Isla Forsyth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-08664-7 (ISBN)

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Second World War British Military Camouflage offers an original approach to the cultures and geographies of military conflict, through a study of the history of camouflage. Isla Forsyth narrates the scientific biography of Dr Hugh Cott (1900-1987), eminent zoologist and artist turned camoufleur, and entwines this with the lives of other camouflage practitioners, to trace the sites of camouflage’s developments. Moving through the scientists’ fieldsite, the committee boardroom, the military training site and the soldiers’ battlefield, this book uncovers the history of this ambiguous military invention, and subverts a long-dominant narrative of camouflage as solely a protective technology. This study demonstrates that, as camouflage transformed battlefields into unsettling theatres of war, there were lasting consequences not only for military technology and knowledge, but also for the ethics of battle and the individuals enrolled in this process.

Isla Forsyth is Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction: A Genealogy of Camouflage
1. Dazzling and Disrupting Conflict
2. Hiding in Plain Sight
3. The Politics of Position
4. Tricksters Transformed to Soldiers
5. Fleurs on the Offensive
Conclusion: Afterlives

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	War, Culture and Society
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-350-08664-9 / 1350086649
ISBN-13	978-1-350-08664-7 / 9781350086647
Zustand	Neuware