Barbed wire : an ecology of modernity /
Netz, Reviel.
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index.
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.
Barbed wire
Wire fencing
Wire obstacles
Concentration camps