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Lost Libraries

The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity

Lost Libraries
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This 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 horrifying pillage and burning in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.; February 2004
309 pages; ISBN 9780230524255
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