TY - BOOK AU - Knuth,Rebecca TI - Burning books and leveling libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction SN - 0275990079 AV - Z659 .K57 2006 U1 - 025.8/2 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Praeger KW - Libraries KW - Destruction and pillage KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Book burning KW - Radicalism KW - Cultural property N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006002747.html ER -