By Reviel Netz
During this unique and arguable publication, historian and thinker Reviel Netz explores the improvement of a controlling and pain-inducing technology—barbed twine. Surveying its improvement from 1874 to 1954, Netz describes its use to regulate livestock in the course of the colonization of the yankee West and to regulate humans in Nazi focus camps and the Russian Gulag. actual keep watch over over area was once not symbolic after 1874.
This is a heritage advised from the point of view of its sufferers. With shiny examples of the interconnectedness of people, animals, and the surroundings, this dramatic account of barbed cord offers glossy background in the course of the lens of movement being avoided. Drawing jointly the background of people and animals, Netz gives you a compelling new point of view at the problems with colonialism, capitalism, conflict, globalization, violence, and pain. Theoretically subtle yet written with a vast readership in brain, Barbed twine demands not anything under a reconsideration of modernity.
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