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092 0  363|bengelska 
100 1  Ovenden, Richard|4aut 
245 10 Burning the books :|ba history of knowledge under attack /
       |cRichard Ovenden 
264  1 London :|bJohn Murray,|c2020 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    308 sidor|billustrationer|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520 1  Opening with the notorious bonfires of ‘un-German’ and 
       Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal
       of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-
       year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the 
       fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden,
       director of the world-famous Bodleian Library, explains 
       how attacks on libraries and archives have been a feature 
       of history since ancient times but have increased in 
       frequency and intensity during the modern era. Libraries 
       are far more than stores of literature, through preserving
       the legal documents such as Magna Carta and records of 
       citizenship, they also support the rule of law and the 
       rights of citizens. Today, the knowledge they hold on 
       behalf of society is under attack as never before. In this
       fascinating book, he explores everything from what really 
       happened to the Great Library of Alexandria to the 
       Windrush papers, from Donald Trump’s deleting embarrassing
       tweets to John Murray’s burning of Byron’s memoirs in the 
       name of censorship. At once a powerful history of 
       civilisation and a manifesto for the vital importance of 
       physical libraries in our increasingly digital age, 
       Burning the Books is also a very human story animated by 
       an unlikely cast of adventurers, self-taught 
       archaeologists, poets, freedom-fighters — and, of course, 
       librarians and the heroic lengths they will go to preserve
       and rescue knowledge, ensuring that civilisation survives.
       From the rediscovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the desert,
       hidden from the Romans and lost for almost 2000 years to 
       the medieval manuscript that inspired William Morris, the 
       knowledge of the past still has so many valuable lessons 
       to teach us and we ignore it at our peril 
648  7 1900-talet|2sao 
648  7 2000-talet|2sao 
650  0 Censorship|xHistory 
650  0 Archives|xHistory 
650  7 Kulturarvsskydd|2sao 
650  7 Censur|xhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Arkiv|xhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Bibliotek|xhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Bokbål|xhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Böcker|xsociala aspekter|xhistoria|2sao 
653    Dawit Isaak-biblioteket