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Burning the books a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge

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Main Author: Ovenden, Richard (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
Edition:First Harvard University Press edition.
Subjects:
Censorship > History.
Libraries > Destruction and pillage > History > 20th century.
Libraries > Destruction and pillage > History > 21st century.
Book burning > History > 20th century.
Book burning > History > 21st century.
Archives > History.
Cultural property > Protection.
Information science > Sociological aspects.
Books > Social aspects > History.
Libraries > Social aspects.
Archives > Social aspects.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cracked clay under the mounds
  • A pyre and papyrus
  • When books were dog cheap
  • An ark to save learning
  • Spoil of the conqueror
  • How to disobey Kafka
  • The twice-burned library
  • The paper brigade
  • To be burned unread
  • Sarajevo Mon Amour
  • Flames of empire
  • An obsession with archives
  • The digital deluge
  • Paradise lost?
  • Coda: Why we will always need libraries and archives.

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