Fitzhugh Brundage: A Global History of Barbed Wire

Wed 11 Nov · Strand Building, Strand Campus · WC2R

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11 November 2026 18:00 to 20:00 Strand Building, Strand Campus, London 11 Nov A Global History of Barbed Wire Brundage traces how barbed wire evolved from a cheap nineteenth-century agricultural innovation into a powerful global instrument of territorial control, warfare, imprisonment, and border enforcement. While enabling agricultural expansion, economic growth, and security, it also facilitated dispossession, repression, restricted mobility, and ecological disruption.

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