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Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction
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Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction / Rebecca Knuth.
ISBN
0275990079
Published
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Physical Description
xiv, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 05, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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