Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction

by RebeccaKnuth (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $72.67

  Book destruction has often been carried out by authoritarian regimes, but dictatorial governments are not the only perpetrators. This book demonstrates that extremists - through terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other forms of mass violence - are also responsible for widespread cultural destruction.