Burning the Books
Destruction and pillage
Written communication
Cultural property
Information science
Censorship
Archives
Sociological aspects
Protection
Books
Libraries
Intellectual life
Social aspects
History
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 mo…
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