Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

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Year of Publication
2020
Contributors Author: Richard Ovenden
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Number of Pages
308 pp.
Publisher
The Belknap Press
City
Cambridge, MA
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ISBN
9780674241206
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Contents: 

  • Cracked clay under the mounds
  • A pyre of papyrus
  • When books were dog cheap
  • An ark to save learning
  • Spoil of the conqueror
  • How to disobey Kafka
  • The twice-burned library
  • The paper brigade
  • To be burned unread
  • Sarajevo Mon Amour
  • Flames of empire
  • An obsession with archives
  • The digital deluge
  • Paradise lost?
  • Coda: Why we will always need libraries and archives