Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity

The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.In this original and controversial book, historian...
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Author: Reviel Netz
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Language: English
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Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity by Netz, Reviel

Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity

€37,12

Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity

€37,12
Author: Reviel Netz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.

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.

Author: Reviel Netz
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 11/10/2009
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780819569592

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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