Library : an unquiet history / Matthew Battles.
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]Description: x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393351453; 0393351459; 0393078620; 9780393078626; 1448180503; 9781448180509Subject(s): Libraries -- History | Libraries and society -- History | Books -- History | Libraries -- History | Books | Libraries | Libraries and society | Bibliotek -- historiaGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 027.009 LOC classification: Z721 | .B28 2015| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
Reading the library -- Burning Alexandria -- The house of wisdom -- The battle of the books -- Books for all -- Knowledge on fire -- Lost in the stacks -- Afterword.
From the clay-tablet collections of ancient Mesopotamia to the storied Alexandria libraries in Egypt, from the burned scrolls of China's Qing Dynasty to the book pyres of the Hitler Youth, from the great medieval library in Baghdad to the priceless volumes destroyed in the multi-cultural Bosnian National Library in Sarajevo, the library has been a battleground of competing notions of what books mean to us. Battles explores how, throughout its many changes, the library has served two contradictory impulses: on the one hand, the urge to exalt canons of literature, to secure and worship the best and most beautiful words; on the other, the desire to contain and control all forms of human knowledge.
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