Burning Books - Richard Ovenden

Knowledge is still under systematic attack, as it has been attacked throughout the ages.. Over time, society has entrusted libraries and records with the process of preserving knowledge, but today these institutions face great dangers. With this cautionary tone, Richard Ovenden, the famous Bodlin Librarian at the University of Oxford, opened the book “Book Burning: The History of the Attack on Knowledge,” reviewing the global history of deliberate destruction of knowledge, as libraries and archives are still under attack from ancient times to the modern era.

Pages: 359