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[ 洋図書 ] Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge /

Richard Ovenden. -- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, -- 2020, -- First Harvard University Press edition.

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ISBN 0674241207 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN13桁 9780674241206 (cloth : alk. paper)
テキストの言語 英語                  
分類：NDC10版 023.8
個人著者標目 Ovenden, Richard.
本タイトル Burning the books :
タイトル関連情報 a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge /
著者名 Richard Ovenden.
版表示 First Harvard University Press edition.
出版地・頒布地 Cambridge, Massachusetts :
出版者・頒布者名 The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
出版年・頒布年 2020,
数量 308 pages :
他の形態的事項 illustrations ;
大きさ 25 cm.
一般注記 "First published in Great Britain as Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack in 2020 by John Murray (Publishers) A Hachette UK company"--Title page verso.
書誌注記 Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-290) and index.
内容注記 Cracked clay under the mounds -- A pyre of papyrus -- When books were dog cheap -- An ark to save learning -- Spoil of the conqueror -- How to disobey Kafka -- The twice-burned library -- The paper brigade -- To be burned unread -- Sarajevo Mon Amour -- Flames of empire -- An obsession with archives -- The digital deluge -- Paradise lost? -- Coda: Why we will always need libraries and archives.
要約、抄録、注釈等 The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction--and surprising survival--of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the United Kingdom's Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts -- political, religious, and cultural -- and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the United States Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions. - Publisher.
一般件名 Book burning -- History -- 20th century.
Book burning -- History -- 21st century.
資料情報1 『Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge /』First Harvard University Press edition.　Richard Ovenden.　The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,　2020, （所蔵館：中央　 請求記号：F/023.8/O96/B　 資料コード：7114561501）
URL https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352050589

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