Burning books and leveling libraries : extremist violence and cultural destruction /
Knuth, Rebecca,1949-
Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger,
2006.
Includes 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Libraries
Libraries
Book burning
Book burning
Radicalism
Radicalism
Cultural property.