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Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge Cover Image Book Book

Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge / Richard Ovenden.

Ovenden, Richard, (author.).

Summary:

Libraries preserve the knowledge and ideas on which rights depend no wonder they are so often attacked. Richard Ovenden tells the history of this deliberate destruction of knowledge--from library burnings to digital attacks and contemporary underfunding--and makes a passionate plea for the importance of these threatened institutions.

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  • ISBN: 9780674271104 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-290) and index.

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