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Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction

av Rebecca Knuth

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In Libricide, Knuth focused on book destruction by authoritarian regimes: by Nazis, Serbs in Bosnnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoist during the Cultural Revolution in China, and the Chinese Communists in Tibet. But authoritarian governments are not the only perpetrators. Extremists of all stripes-through terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other forms of mass violence-are also responsible for widespread cultural destruction, as she demonstrates in this new book. Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalize excess, the decimation of the world's libraries has occurred throughout the 20th century, and there is no end in sight. Cultural destruction is, therefore, of increasing concern to the library community, educators, human rights and civil rights activists, and concerned citizens.… (mer)
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The first chapters were, for me the strongest. After a compelling and insightful theoretical overview of the motivations that compel the destruction of libraries, the author moves to a series of illustrative case studies. The first--the wrecking of the South African Institute in 1984--seemed the most originally researched. As the book progresses, the examples become more derivative and repetitions of other work.

The net effect, however, remains powerful and, in spots, brilliantly insightful. ( )
  dono421846 | Jan 29, 2017 |
Informative but, well, considering Knuth coined the term "libricide," it's no suprise that she can write on it and bibliocide so well ( )
  leFroo | Mar 18, 2011 |
A thorough history of the causes, methods, and results of cultural destruction - specifically library destruction. Wartime Germany, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as other instances of destruction are covered. ( )
  Hagelstein | Dec 6, 2009 |
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In Libricide, Knuth focused on book destruction by authoritarian regimes: by Nazis, Serbs in Bosnnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoist during the Cultural Revolution in China, and the Chinese Communists in Tibet. But authoritarian governments are not the only perpetrators. Extremists of all stripes-through terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other forms of mass violence-are also responsible for widespread cultural destruction, as she demonstrates in this new book. Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalize excess, the decimation of the world's libraries has occurred throughout the 20th century, and there is no end in sight. Cultural destruction is, therefore, of increasing concern to the library community, educators, human rights and civil rights activists, and concerned citizens.

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