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This pioneering 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 recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq

Book history --- Documentation and information --- 7.025.1 --- 02 <09> <4> --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" --- 355.012 --- 098.1 --- Kunstwerken: schade; averij; vernieling; verwoesting; vandalisme --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Europa --- Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- Oorlogsmisdaden --- Verboden boeken --- Censorship --- Cultural property --- Libraries and society --- Libraries and state --- Libraries --- History --- Destruction and pillage --- 098.1 Verboden boeken --- 355.012 Oorlogsmisdaden --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- 02 <09> <4> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Europa --- 7.025.1 Kunstwerken: schade; averij; vernieling; verwoesting; vandalisme --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- State and libraries --- Cultural policy --- Society and libraries --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Book censorship --- Books --- Literature --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Prohibited books --- Government policy --- Law and legislation --- Case studies --- Bibliotheques --- Livres --- Histoire --- Mutilation, degradation, etc. --- Censure

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This book introduces the fast-developing field of book history. James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.Students, teachers, researchers and general readers will benefit from the book's investigation of the subject's origins, scope and future direction. Based on original research and a wide range of sources, What is the History of the Book? shows how book history crosses disciplinary boundaries and intersects with literary, historical, communications, media, library and conservation studies. Raven uses examples from around the world to explore different traditions in bibliography, palaeography and manuscript studies. He analyses book history's growing global ambition and demonstrates how the study of reading practises opens up new horizons in social history and the history of knowledge. He shows how book history is contributing to debates about intellectual and popular culture, colonialism and the communication of ideas. The first global, accessible introduction to the field of book history from ancient to modern times, What is the History of the Book? is essential reading for all those interested in one of society's most important cultural artefacts.

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Book industries and trade --- Proprietary libraries --- Subscription libraries --- 027 <73> --- 655.4 <41 LONDON> --- 655.4 <73> --- 027 <73> Algemene bibliotheken--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Algemene bibliotheken--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Libraries, Subscription --- Membership libraries --- Libraries --- Libraries, Proprietary --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- History --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--LONDON --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Charleston Library Society (S.C.) --- Charleston (S.C.) --- London (England) --- Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- Lunnainn (England) --- City of Charleston (S.C.) --- Charles-Town (S.C.) --- Commerce --- Intellectual life --- Book history --- book history --- booksellers --- Charleston Library Society --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- booksellers [people]