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.