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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

Author: Rebecca Knuth
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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