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Library : an unquiet history

Auteur: Matthew Battles
Uitgever: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2003.
Editie/Formaat:   Boek : Engels : 1st edAlle edities en materiaalsoorten bekijken.
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"From the clay-tablet collections of ancient Mesopotamia to the storied Alexandria libraries in Egypt, from the burned scrolls of China's Qing Dynasty to the book pyres of the Hitler Youth, from the great medieval library in Baghdad to the priceless volumes destroyed in the multi-cultural Bosnian National Library in Sarajevo, the library has been a battleground of competing notions of what books mean to us. Battles  Meer lezen...
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Soort document: Boek
Alle auteurs / medewerkers: Matthew Battles
ISBN: 0393020290 0393325644 9780393020298 9780393325645
OCLC-nummer: 51305782
Beschrijving: x, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Inhoud: Reading the library --
Burning Alexandria --
The house of wisdom --
The battle of the books --
Books for all --
Knowledge on fire --
Lost in the stacks.
Verantwoordelijkheid: Matthew Battles.

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Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited tour of libraries--from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the  Meer lezen...

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Battles turns an all-seeing telescope on the most spectacular galaxy in our intellectual heavens that magnificent constellation of books we call a library and brings into focus the brightest stars Meer lezen...

 
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Too rambling to get through

door armandofox (Gepubliceerd door gebruiker WorldCat 2009-08-04) Matig Permalink

I tend to love material on libraries, history of libraries, history of books and publishing, etc., but this writing is just too rambling. The author is clearly knowledgeable about libraries and the historical contexts in which the great libraries evolved (and many ultimately fell) but he doesn't structure...
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Rise and Fall of Libraries

door ricklibrarian (Gepubliceerd door gebruiker WorldCat 2005-12-03) Goed Permalink
I am a bit surprised by Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles. The author writes a well balanced history until he reaches the twentieth century, including many of the main developments in the concept of the library. Libraries in ancient Alexandria, ancient China, Jewish synagogues, mosques,...
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schema:reviewBody""From the clay-tablet collections of ancient Mesopotamia to the storied Alexandria libraries in Egypt, from the burned scrolls of China's Qing Dynasty to the book pyres of the Hitler Youth, from the great medieval library in Baghdad to the priceless volumes destroyed in the multi-cultural Bosnian National Library in Sarajevo, the library has been a battleground of competing notions of what books mean to us. Battles explores how, throughout its many changes, the library has served two contradictory impulses: on the one hand, the urge to exalt canons of literature, to secure and worship the best and most beautiful words; on the other, the desire to contain and control all forms of human knowledge."--BOOK JACKET."
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