Barbed Wire

A Political History

Olivier Razac (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2003
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-56584-812-2 (ISBN)

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No less than the internal combustion engine, the transistor, or the silicon chip, barbed wire is a quintessentially modern invention, a product that has influenced the lives of millions of people across the globe since its invention in the late nineteenth century. Now in paperback, Barbed Wire: A Political History demonstrates that the invention of barbed wire was a major breakthrough with far-reaching consequences. Cheap and mass-produced, barbed wire accomplished what no other product did before it, or has since done more effectively: the control of vast amounts of open space.

Razac describes how barbed wire has been employed in the harnessing of nature, brutal mass warfare, political conquest and repression, and genocide. In a narrative that spans the history of the American frontier, the trenches of World War I, the Holocaust, and beyond, Barbed Wire: A Political History looks unflinchingly at a central and fascinating strand of modern life.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.7.2003
Übersetzer	Jonathan Kneight
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	133 x 190 mm
Gewicht	19 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-56584-812-8 / 1565848128
ISBN-13	978-1-56584-812-2 / 9781565848122
Zustand	Neuware