The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.
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"Stunningly thought-provoking and beautifully grim in bearing witness to a larger meaning of technology, this book makes a supple use of traditional sources to discuss place and containment, with utterly novel generalizations about human economic activities and the appropriation of space." (Paul F. Starrs, author of Let the Cowboy Ride )
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This is a tour-de-force piece of scholarship from an author who normally writes fascinating, but quite difficult, texts about ancient mathematics. Barbed Wire takes the invention, development, and use of barbed wire in agriculture, on the battlefield, and in prison camps as a case study to talk about the ways in which modernity can, in a sense, be defined through the ways in which it changed how movement is allowed and prevented, and how the economic/ecological processes of everyday life are organized. This book presents big, often terrifying, ideas in a way which is accessible and pleasurable to read. It poses serious questions which we cannot ignore about modern politics and the ways in which we live in relation to each other as humans and as animals on the planet.
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World War, Soviet Union, Great Plains, South Africa, United States, Boer War, Civil War, Von Schmidt, American West, Russo-Japanese War, Wild Bill, British Empire, White Sea, New York, Henry Rose, Russian Empire, San Antonio, North American, Far East, Homestead Act, New Mexico, Final Solution, Solovetsky Islands, Saint Petersburg, Indiana University Press Browse Sample Pages:
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