Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction / Rebecca Knuth
- Bib ID:
- 3701294
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Knuth, Rebecca, 1949-
- Description:
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- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2006
- xiv, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0275990079
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Subject:
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- 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
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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