Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth CenturyBloomsbury Academic, 2003 M07 30 - 296 páginas Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings, declared German poet Heinrich Heine. This book identifies the regime-sponsored, ideologically driven, and systemic destruction of books and libraries in the 20th century that often served as a prelude or accompaniment to the massive human tragedies that have characterized a most violent century. Using case studies of libricide committed by Nazis, Serbs in Bosnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China, and Chinese Communists in Tibet, Knuth argues that the destruction of books and libraries by authoritarian regimes was sparked by the same impulses toward negation that provoked acts of genocide or ethnocide. |
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Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the ... Rebecca Knuth Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the ... Rebecca Knuth Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |