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Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction / Rebecca Knuth.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knuth, Rebecca, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libraries--Destruction and pillage--History--20th century.
- Libraries.
- Libraries--Destruction and pillage--History--21st century.
- Book burning--History--20th century.
- Book burning.
- Book burning--History--21st century.
- Radicalism--History--20th century.
- Radicalism.
- History.
- Radicalism--History--21st century.
- Cultural property.
- Libraries--Destruction and pillage.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 233 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
- Contents:
- Introducing modern biblioclasm
- Tracing the path of extremism from Robespierre to Milosevic
- Political protestors and Amsterdam's South African Institute, 1984
- Ethnic biblioclasm, 1980-2005
- National Socialism and the destruction of Berlin's Institute for Sexual Knowledge, 1933
- Secular fanaticism and the auto-genocide of Cambodia, 1975-1979
- Fundamentalism and the destruction of Afghanistan's cultural heritage, 1994-2001
- Dueling ideologies and total war, 1939-1945
- Anarchy and acquisitive vandalism, 1967-2003
- Errors of omission and cultural destruction in Iraq, 2003.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275990079
- OCLC:
- 63703782
- Publisher Number:
- 9780275990077
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