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Polastron, Lucien X.
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Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History.
Libraries -- History.
Censorship -- History.
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Polastron, Lucien X.
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History.
Libraries -- History.
Censorship -- History.
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Books on fire : the destruction of libraries throughout history / Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham.
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Polastron, Lucien X.
Inner Traditions, 2007.
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P762b
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Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History.
Libraries -- History.
Censorship -- History.
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9781594771675
1594771677
Uniform title:
Livres en feu. English
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
xii, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-362) and index.
Contents:
In the cradle of the libraries -- The papyrus region -- Islam of the first days -- People of the book -- Asia before the twentieth century -- The Christian West -- The new biblioclasts -- Peace damages -- An embarrassment of modernity -- Flameproof knowledge -- Epilogue: return to Alexandria.
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