Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings, declared German poet Heinrich Heine. This book identifies the regime-sponsored, ideologically driven, and systemic destruction of b
In writing of the modern "plague of book destruction" as a form of ethnocide, Knuth (library and information science program, U. of Hawaii) presents case studies of state-sponsored censorship to extin
In her previous book Libricide, Knuth focused on book destruction by authoritarian regimes: Nazis, Serbs in Bosnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China, and the Chinese
