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Knuth, Rebecca, 1949-

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

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Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	025.82 K786b 2006	---	Available
Axe Special Collections Whitehead	025.82 K786b 2006	---	Lib Use Only

Description	xiv, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Note	Includes index.
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	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.
ISBN	0275990079
Standard No.	9780275990077