A universal history of the destruction of books : from ancient Sumer to modern Iraq /
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New York :
Atlas & Co.,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Ancient World
- Near East
- Egypt
- Greece
- Library of Alexandria
- Other Ancient Libraries and, Aristotle's Lost Books
- China
- Rome and Early Christianity
- Oblivion and the Fragility of Books
- From Byzantium to the Nineteenth Century
- Constantinople
- Between Monks and Barbarians
- Islamic World
- Misplaced Medieval Fervor
- Destruction of Pre-Hispanic Culture in the Americas
- Renaissance
- England
- Revolutions in France, Spain, and Latin America
- Fires, Wars, Mistakes, find Messiahs
- Books Destroyed in Fiction
- From the Twentieth Century to the Present
- Rise of Fascism
- Censorship and Self-Censorship in the Modern Age
- China and the Soviet Union
- Spain, Chile, and Argentina
- Particular Kind of Hatred
- On the Natural Enemies of Books
- Iraq.