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This edited volume offers an in-depth study of heritage and warfare from the perspective of defence studies. The book focuses on how, in different contexts, heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict, an obstacle to stabilisation, but also a driver of peace-building. It documents the changing role of heritage - in terms of both exploitation and protection - in various military capabilities, theatres, and operations. With particular concern for the areas of subthreshold and hybrid warfare, stabilisation, cultural relationships, human security, and disaster response, the volume reviews the historical relationship between heritage and armed conflict, including the roles of embedded archaeologists, safeguarding of ethics, and dislodgement and destruction of material culture. Various chapters in the book also demonstrate the value of understanding how state and non-state actors exploit cultural heritage across different defence postures and within both subthreshold and proxy warfare in order to achieve military, political, economic, and diplomatic advantage. This book will be of interest to students of defence studies, heritage studies, anthropology and security studies in general, as well as military practitioners.

CULTURAL PROPERTY--PROTECTION --- WAR AND CIVILIZATION

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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction--and surprising survival--of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo. He examines both the motivations for these acts -- political, religious, and cultural -- and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process.

024.8 --- 02 <09> --- 02 <09> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Censorship --- Libraries --- Book burning --- Archives --- Cultural property --- Information science --- Books --- History. --- Destruction and pillage --- History --- Protection. --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Archives. --- Book burning. --- Censorship. --- Destruction and pillage. --- 1900-2099. --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> --- Universiteiten--België--LEUVEN --- Censorship - History. --- Libraries - Destruction and pillage - History - 20th century. --- Libraries - Destruction and pillage - History - 21st century. --- Book burning - History - 20th century. --- Book burning - History - 21st century. --- Archives - History. --- Cultural property - Protection. --- Information science - Sociological aspects. --- Books - Social aspects - History. --- Libraries - Social aspects. --- Archives - Social aspects. --- HISTORY, MODERN--20TH CENTURY --- KNOWLEDGE, SOCIOLOGY OF--HISTORY --- COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE --- LIBRARY INFORMATION NETWORKS --- INFORMATION SOCIETY --- 1900-2099