Richard Ovenden, Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack. London: John Murray (2020)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/post.20322Keywords:
text, library, archive, collection, destructionAbstract
Richard Ovenden, Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack. London: John Murray (2020)
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