Barbed wire :: an ecology of modernity /

"In this original book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technology - barbed wire. Surveying its development from 1874 to 1954, Netz describes its use to control cattle during the colonization of the American West and to control p...

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1. Verfasser: Netz, Reviel
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, ©2004.
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Zusammenfassung:"In this original book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technology - barbed wire. Surveying its development from 1874 to 1954, Netz describes its use to control cattle during the colonization of the American West and to control people in Nazi concentration camps and the Russian Gulag. Physical control over space was no longer symbolic after 1874"--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.
ISBN:0819567191
9780819567192
9780819570765
0819570761

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