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The perfect fence : untangling the meanings of barbed wire / Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott ; foreword by Sterling Evans.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Connecting the greater west seriesPublication details: College Station : Texas A and M University Press, (c)2017.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781623495831
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F594 .P474 2017
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Contents:
"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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction F594 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn981948743

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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