Libricide : the regime-sponsored destruction of books and libraries in the twentieth century / Rebecca Knuth.
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TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, 2003.Description: xiii, 277 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780275980887 :
- 027598088X
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
- Censorship -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
- Libraries and state -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
- Libraries -- Censorship -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- History
- Educational strategies & policy
- Political science & theory
- Ethical issues: censorship
- Politics & government
- 363.310904 KNU
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 363.310904 KNU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 203184 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Books, libraries, and the phenomenon of ethnocide--The evolution and functions of libraries--A theoretical framework for libricide--Nazi Germany: racism and nationalism--Greater Serbia--Iraq, Kuwait, and the politics of thuggery--China\'s cultural revolution--Tibet: a culture in jepardy--The collision of ideas.
Discusses the evolution and functions of libraries and a theory of libricide as a weapon of autocratic regimes, and presents case studies of state-sponsored censorship to suppress cultures from Nazi Germany to China's takeover of Tibet.