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The library: a fragile history
The library: a fragile history
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Pettegree, Andrew
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication Date
2021.
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First US Edition.
Part 1: Inception and survival
A confusion of scrolls
Sanctuary
Little monkeys and letters of gold
Part 2: The crisis of print
The infernal press
Coming of age
Reformations
Part 3: The new collectors
The professionals
Idle books and riff raff
Mission fields
Part 4: Between public and private
Grand designs
Cardinal errors
The antiquarians
Part 5: Fictions
Orderly minds
Building empires
Reading on the job
Part 6: The war on books
Surviving the Twentieth Century
Wrestling with modernity
Libraries, books and politics.
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History
Libraries
Libraries -- History
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Contributors
Weduwen, Arthur der
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ISBN
9781541600775
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