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Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction / Rebecca Knuth.
Publication details: London: Westport, Conn.: Praeger, c2006.Description: xiv, 233 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 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
- Z659 .K57 2006
Contents:
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.
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Barcode | |
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | Z 659 .K57 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 691030 |
Includes bibliographical references and 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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