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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-20 - Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: UCL Press
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of
Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books
Robert Bevan examines the effects of conflict upon architecture and argues that the deliberate destruction of built artefacts, by terrorists or an invading army
Language: en
Pages: 392
Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to
Language: en
Pages: 321
Pages: 321
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge