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摘要

The destruction of library and cultural heritage institutions and their contents is a phenomenon that has plagued human history. Regardless of time or place, acts of biblioclasm are linked by the common threads of extremist, unilateral attitudes and sociopolitical unrest. In Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Rebecca Knuth not only recounts these global acts of vandalism from the last century, but she explores the motivations for such behavior through historical and sociological analyses.