Barbed wire

an ecology of modernity

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Reviel Netz: Barbed wire (2004, Wesleyan University Press)

267 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2004 by Wesleyan University Press.

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The violence and confinement we apply to animals we end up applying to ourselves. A history of enclosing the range, the end of cavalry with guerilla & trench warfare, and concentration camps from Boer to Stalin to Nazis. Tough reading, but many clear re-interpretations of control and exploitation and industrialization implications.

Subjects

  • Barbed wire -- Political aspects
  • Wire fencing -- History
  • Wire obstacles -- History
  • Concentration camps -- History