Title Barbed wire : an ecology of modernity / Reviel Netz.

Publication Info.	Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2004]
	©2004

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	TS271 .N48 2004	Available	---

Description	xiv, 267 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.
Contents	Expansion : the American West and the invention of barbed wire. Unpacking the Louisiana Purchase ; How to fence a cow ; How to fence the world -- Confrontation : barbed wire on the battlefield. Conquest by iron ; Crisis of the horse ; Perfection of the obstacle ; The obstacle triumphant -- Containment : barbed wire in the concentration camps. The control of nations ; Enemy people ; Tractors to Ukraine ; Trains to Auschwitz.
Subject	Barbed wire -- Political aspects.
	Barbed wire.
	Wire fencing -- History.
	Wire fencing.
	History.
	Wire obstacles -- History.
	Wire obstacles.
	Nazi concentration camps -- History.
	Internment camps -- History.
	Nazi concentration camps.
ISBN	0819567191