List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ONE: EXPANSION
The American West and the Invention of Barbed Wire
1. Unpacking the Louisiana Purchase
2. How to Fence a Cow
3. How to Fence the World
TWO: CONFRONTATION
Barbed Wire on the Battlefield
1. Conquest by Iron
2. Crisis of the Horse
3. Perfection of the Obstacle
4. The Obstacle Triumphant
THREE: CONTAINMENT
Barbed Wire in the Concentration Camps
1. The Control of Nations
2. Enemy People
3. Tractors to Ukraine
4. Trains to Auschwitz
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
