Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition

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Author: Netz, Reviel
ISBN: 9780819569592

by Reviel Netz

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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 lens of motion being prevented. Drawing together the history of humans and animals, Netz delivers a compelling new perspective on the issues of colonialism, capitalism, warfare, globalization, violence, and suffering. Theoretically sophisticated but written with a broad readership in mind, Barbed Wire calls for nothing less than a reconsideration of modernity.

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Title Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity
Author Reviel Netz
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 288
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wesleyan University Press, U.S.A.
Publication date 2004-10-01
Features Maps
ISBN 9780819569592 / 0819569593
Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.64 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.63 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Chronological Period: Modern
Category History - General History
Dewey Decimal Code 909.8

About the author

REVIEL NETZ is Associate Professor at Stanford University, teaching history and the philosophy of science. His books include The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (1999) and the forthcoming Archimedes: Translation and Commentary.

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