Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1403921199
ISBN 13
9781403921192
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
256
Description
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq. - from Amzon
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