The perfect fence untangling the meanings of barbed wire
Constructing the meaning of barbed wire in late nineteenth-century America -- "Infernal machines": debating the meaning of barbed wire fences in the media -- "Secure and safe alike": legislative challenges and inventive responses -- "The perfect fence": selling barbed w...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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College Station
Texas A&M University Press
2017
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Connecting the greater west series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Constructing the meaning of barbed wire in late nineteenth-century America -- "Infernal machines": debating the meaning of barbed wire fences in the media -- "Secure and safe alike": legislative challenges and inventive responses -- "The perfect fence": selling barbed wire -- The barbed wire motif in literature -- "Don't fence me in": barbed wire in the western -- "Intimate fences": barbed wire in the New West -- "The thorny fence": reifying the religious metaphor -- "I helped him build his own fences": cutting the wire, cutting the lies |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxiv, 269 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781623495824 978-1-62349-582-4 |