Original publication date
2021-10-10 (deutsch)
2020
Publication
London : John Murray, 2020.
ISBN
9781529378788
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Cracked Clay Under the Mounds
2. A Pyre of Papyrus
3. When Books Were Dog Cheap
4. An Ark to Save Learning
5. Spoil of the Conqueror
6. How to Disobey Kafka
7. The Twice-Burned Library
8. The Paper Brigade
9. To Be Burned Unread
10. Sarajevo Mon Amour
11. Flames of Empire
12. An Obsession with Archives
13. The Digital Deluge
14. Paradise Lost?
15. Coda: Why We Will Always Need Libraries and Archives
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. Cracked Clay Under the Mounds
2. A Pyre of Papyrus
3. When Books Were Dog Cheap
4. An Ark to Save Learning
5. Spoil of the Conqueror
6. How to Disobey Kafka
7. The Twice-Burned Library
8. The Paper Brigade
9. To Be Burned Unread
10. Sarajevo Mon Amour
11. Flames of Empire
12. An Obsession with Archives
13. The Digital Deluge
14. Paradise Lost?
15. Coda: Why We Will Always Need Libraries and Archives
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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