Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction

Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction / Rebecca Knuth.

Author/creator	Knuth, Rebecca, 1949-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Description	xiv, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	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.

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.
General note	Includes index.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2006002747
ISBN	0275990079
ISBN	9780275990077

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	Z659 .K57 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold