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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Main Author: Netz, Reviel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, ©2004.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.
ISBN:0819567191
9780819567192
9780819570765
0819570761

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