Burning Books and Leveling Libraries : Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction / Rebecca Knuth


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Prêt normal | Enssib | Papier | Pôle Histoire du livre et des bibliothèques | 002 CEN k (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 832113E |
Références bibliographiques en fin de chapitres. Index
PREFACE. Chapter 1: Understanding modern biblioclasm. Chapter 2: Tracing the path of extremism from Robespierre to Milosevic. PART I: GRAPPLING FOR VOICE AND POWER. Chapter 3: Political protestors and Amsterdam's South African Institute, 1984. Chapter 4: Ethnic biblioclasm, 1980-2005. PART II: ABSOLUTE POWER AND THE DRIVE TO PURIFY SOCIETY. Chapter 5: National socialism and the destruction of Berlin's Institute for Sexual Science, 1933. Chapter 6: Secular fanaticism and the auto-genocide of Cambodia, 1975-1979. Chapter 7: Fundamentalism and the destruction of Afghanistan's cultural heritage, 1994-2001. PART III: WAR, POWER VACUUM, AND ANARCHY. Chapter 8: Dueling ideologies and total war, 1939-1945. Chapter 9: Anarchy and acquisitive vandalism, 1967-2003. Chapter 10: Errors of omission and cultural destruction in Iraq, 2003. INDEX
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