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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

by Richard Ovenden

★ Historical Writers Association Non-Fiction Longlist ★ Wolfson History Prize

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction―and surprising survival―of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful dest

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2020
Format: Print edition
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780674241206

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History: History – General Literary Criticism: Books & Reading Political Science: Censorship

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