- Introduction
- 1. Cracked Clay Under the Mounds
- 2. A Pyre of Papyrus
- 3. When Books Were Dog Cheap
- 4. An Ark to Save Learning
- 5. Spoil of the Conqueror
- 6. How to Disobey Kafka
- 7. The Twice-Burned Library
- 8. The Paper Brigade
- 9. To Be Burned Unread
- 10. Sarajevo Mon Amour
- 11. Flames of Empire
- 12. An Obsession with Archives
- 13. The Digital Deluge
- 14. Paradise Lost?
- 15. Coda: Why We Will Always Need Libraries and Archives
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Credits
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index


Burning the Books
A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
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$17.95 • £15.95 • €16.95
ISBN 9780674271104
Publication Date: 05/03/2022