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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Big ideas and a gripping read,
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This review is from: Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity (Hardcover)
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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Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity by Reviel Netz (Hardcover - November 29, 2004)
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