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Burning Books
by Haig A. Bosmajian- ISBN: 9780786422081 (0786422084)
- Author: Haig A. Bosmajian
- Release date: June 9, 2006
- Publisher: McFarland & Company
- Format: hardcover, 233 pages
- Language: english
- Genres: history
About The Book
For over 2000 years, book burners have laid their torches to millions of books condemned as heretical, blasphemous, immoral, obscene, subversive or seditious. Books have been reduced to ashes in church yards, college yards, school furnaces, public squares and city streets. The goals of the book burners have been to extirpate history, to intimidate and stamp out opposition, to create solidarity, and to cleanse society of controversial ideas. Too often, book burning foreshadows violence against those who originated or shared the ideas. This work provides a detailed account of book burning worldwide over the past 2000 years. (Book burning is meant literally, not as a figurative reference to book banning.) The book burners are identified, along with the works they deliberately set aflame. An important aspect of this study is its examination of the metaphoric language that justified the destruction …
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