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Author Knuth, Rebecca, 1949-

Title Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction / Rebecca Knuth
Published Westport, CT : Praeger, [2006]
©2006

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Description xiv, 233 pages ; 24 cm
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject 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.
Anarchism.
LC no. 2006002747
ISBN 0275990079 hardback
9780275990077 hardback