Knuth, Rebecca,  1949- <br/><br/>
Burning books and leveling libraries :  extremist violence and cultural destruction / 
Rebecca Knuth. 
 - Westport, Conn. :  Praeger,  2006. 
 - xiv, 233 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0275990079 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006002747 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Libraries--Destruction and pillage--History--20th century.<br/>Libraries--Destruction and pillage--History--21st century.<br/>Book burning--History--20th century.<br/>Book burning--History--21st century.<br/>Radicalism--History--20th century.<br/>Radicalism--History--21st century.<br/>Cultural property.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z659  / .K57 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>025.8/2