TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polastron,Lucien X.
AU  - Graham,Jon E.
TI  - Books on fire: the destruction of libraries throughout history 
SN  - 9781594771675
AV  - Z721 .P5613 2007
U1  - 027.009 POL 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Rochester, Vt.
PB  - Inner Traditions
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - History
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-362) and index; 1. Preface; 2. In the Cradle of Libraries: When Earth had the word; 3. The Papyrus Region; Egypt: The Construction of Alexandria; The Destruction of Alexandria; Athens; Rome; Constantinople; 4. Islam of the Origins; Al-Andaluz; Eastern Medieval Islam; 5. People of the Book; 6. Asia Before the 20th Century; Paper Burns Better than Bamboo; India at the Source of Knowledge; The Sword and the Brush; 7. The Christian West; Inquisition; Catholic Spain; New World; From the Middle Ages to the Age of Revolutions: The Middle Ages and How to Get Out of them; The Renaissance\'s Dances of Death; Revolutions and Evaluations; 8. The New Bibliocasts; Books in Wars; Nazism and the Holocaust; An End of the Century World Tour: USSR; China; Cambodia; Sri Lanka; Kashmir; Cuba; France; Africa; Bosnia; Afghanistan; Iraq; 9. Peace Damages; The Elements; The Library in the Sea; Theft; Death; 10. An Embarassment of Modernity; 11. Flameproof Knowledge; 12. Return to Alexandria
N2  - "A historical survey of the destruction of knowledge from ancient Babylon and China to modern times"--Provided by. publisher
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007015106.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0714/2007015106-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0714/2007015106-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/2007015106-s.html
ER  -