Barbed Wire
An Ecology of Modernity
In this original and controversial 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.This is a history told from the perspective of its victims. With vivid examples of the interconnectedness of humans, animals, and the environment, this dramatic account of barbed wire presents modern history through the l…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8195-7076-5
- EAN: 9780819570765
- Produktnummer: 13821129
- Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'825 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 maps, 2 figures
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Reviel Netz
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