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The perfect fence : untangling the meanings of barbed wire /
Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2017]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Connecting the greater west series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.