Connolly: I think there’s not a ton of information on what are all the books they banned, but we do know that they were just pretty strict in general. There was an environment of suppression.

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This also fits Ms Vallejo’s agenda. She strives mightily to excavate hidden women, who were not supposed to have any role in the earliest history of books—or, indeed, of speaking.

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Book burning has often been tied to conquest and imperial governing. The first emperor of China orchestrated the first known recorded instance of government-sanctioned book burnings in 213 B.C.

In the 1990s, when “the history of the book” was taking off as an academic field, the scholars involved couldn’t quite decide which objects they were supposed to study.

The phenomenon has undermined our trust in electoral systems, in vaccines — and in what happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Here are books on its history, techniques and effects.