Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction / Rebecca Knuth.
Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.Description: xiv, 233 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0275990079
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 20th century
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 21st century
- Book burning -- History -- 20th century
- Book burning -- History -- 21st century
- Radicalism -- History -- 20th century
- Radicalism -- History -- 21st century
- Cultural property
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- Z659 .K57 2006
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Includes index.
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.
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