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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Knuth |
| ISBN: | 0275990079 9780275990077 |
| OCLC Number: | 63703782 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiv, 233 p. ; 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. |
| Responsibility: | Rebecca Knuth. |
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