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Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century

By: Rebecca Knuth | Book details

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INDEX
Afghanistan
Bamiyan Buddhist statues, destruction of, 247
cultural destruction, libricide, 247
Taliban government, 247
African Americans, Schomburg History collection, New York Public Library, 32
Alexandrian Library (ancient Greece), description, destruction, 10, 22–23, 56
American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights, 34
Anti-intellectualism, 78. See also under specific countries
Anti-Semitism, 81. See also Nazi Germany
Anti-Zionism. See Iraq
Arab states. See also Iraq
Ba'thism, 139–43
colonialism and independence, 139–40
history, 139–40
libraries compromised by Iraq invasion of Kuwait (1989–1990), 43–44
library, information network disruption, Iraq invasion of Kuwait (1989–1990), 44, 137, 158–60
nationalism, 150
Pan-Arabism, 139–43, 150–51, 154, 155, 156, 158–59, 161
response to Iraq invasion of Kuwait (1989–1990), 157
response to Saddam Hussein, 156–57
Six Day War (Egypt and Israel, 1967), 140–42
humiliation at Egypt defeat by Israel, Six Day War (1967), 140
Ashurbanipal (Sumerian king), library of clay tablets, 21
Asia, libricide, 3
Assyrians. See Mesopotamia

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