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Edited Clean Version : Technology And The Culture Of Control
Books, Libraries, Reading, And Publishing In The Cold War
Libricide : The Regime-sponsored Destruction Of Books And Libraries In The Twentieth Century

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Rebecca KnuthPublication Details
BookPraeger2003Description
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings,” declared German poet Heinrich Heine. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z659 .K58 2003 AVAILABLE
Lost Libraries : The Destruction Of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity

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edited by James RavenPublication Details
BookPalgrave Macmillan2004Links
Description
Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z721 .L67 2004 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
A Universal History Of The Destruction Of Books : From Ancient Sumer To Modern Iraq

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Fernando Báez ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdamPublication Details
BookAtlas & Co2008Description
A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the widespread looting of libraries in post-war Iraq, the leveling of the Library of Alexandria, book burnings by Crusaders and Nazis, and censorship against authors past and present. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) Z659 .B3413 2008 AVAILABLE
Censoring Sex : A Historical Journey Through American Media

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John E. SemonchePublication Details
BookRowman & Littlefield2007Links
Description
In this gracefully written, accessible and entertaining volume, John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up until the present. In an era in which sexual images are pervasive and the need for reliable information about sex and sexuality is growing, he questions the remaining rationales for censorship and the justification for placing obscenity outside the protection of the U.S. Constitution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z658.U5 S46 2007 AVAILABLE
Obscene In The Extreme : The Burning And Banning Of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes Of Wrath

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Rick WartzmanPublication Details
Book1st edPublicAffairs2008Links
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Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck?s The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. Camp, a giant cotton and potato grower, presided over its burning in downtown Bakersfield, he declared: ?We are angry, not because we were attacked but because we were attacked by a book obscene in the extreme sense of the word.? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3537.T3234 G895 2008 AVAILABLE
The Holocaust And The Book : Destruction And Preservation

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edited by Jonathan RosePublication Details
BookUniversity of Massachusetts Press2008Description
Topics include the development of Nazi censorship policies, the cele-brated library of the Vilna ghetto, the confiscation of books from the Sephardic communities in Rome and Salonika, the experience of reading in the ghettos and concentration camps, the rescue of Polish incunabula, the uses of fine printing by the Dutch underground, and the suppression of Jewish books and authors in the Soviet Union. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z658.G3 H65 2008 AVAILABLE
You Can’t Air That : Four Cases Of Controversy And Censorship In American Television Programming

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David S. SilvermanPublication Details
Book1st edSyracuse University Press2007Description
Silverman assesses four controversial television programs from the perspective of media history, assessing the censorship present at all four networks and the political and intellectual inertia it produces in broadcast television. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1992.3.U6 S555 2007 AVAILABLE
Freedom To Offend : How New York Remade Movie Culture
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