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

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006Description: xiv, 233 s. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0275990079
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 025.8/2 22
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.
Summary: Om plundring och förstörelse av bibliotek i samband med krig och politisk extremism
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Bok Orkanenbiblioteket 000 025 knu Available 3204015320
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Om plundring och förstörelse av bibliotek i samband med krig och politisk extremism