Burning the Books
Subtitle: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674241206
Copyright date: 2020
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Cracked clay under the mounds; title: A pyre of papyrus; title: When books were dog cheap; title: An ark to save learning; title: Spoil of the conqueror; title: How to disobey Kafka; title: The twice-burned library; title: The paper brigade; title: To be burned unread; title: Sarajevo Mon Amour; title: Flames of empire; title: An obsession with archives; title: The digital deluge; title: Paradise lost?; title: Coda : Why we will always need libraries and archives