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Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity by Rav
Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity by Rav
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Item Height: 216mm
Item Width: 140mm
Author: J. Raven
Publication Name: Lost Libraries: the Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2004
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 520g
Number of Pages: 294 Pages
Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity
by Raven, J.
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 of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
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