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The Book of the Sword

Sir Richard Francis Burton · History_-_Warfare · 43 章

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THE BOOK OF THE SWORD FOREWORD.INTRODUCTION.LIST OF AUTHORITIES.CONTENTS.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.CHAPTER I. PREAMBLE: ON THE ORIGIN OF WEAPONS.CHAPTER II. MAN’S FIRST WEAPONS—THE STONE AND THE STICK. THE EARLIEST AGES OF WEAPONS. THE AGES OF WOOD, OF BONE, AND OF HORN.CHAPTER III. THE WEAPONS OF THE AGE OF WOOD: THE BOOMERANG AND THE SWORD OF WOOD; OF STONE, AND OF WOOD AND STONE COMBINED.Chapter 10 CHAPTER IV. THE PROTO-CHALCITIC OR COPPER AGE OF WEAPONS.Chapter 12 CHAPTER V. THE SECOND CHALCITIC AGE OF ALLOYS[242]—BRONZE, BRASS, ETC.: THE AXE AND THE SWORD.Chapter 14 CHAPTER VI. THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.Chapter 16 CHAPTER VII. THE SWORD: WHAT IS IT?Chapter 18 CHAPTER VIII. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND IN MODERN AFRICA.Chapter 20 CHAPTER IX. THE SWORD IN KHITA-LAND, PALESTINE AND CANAAN; PHŒNICIA AND CARTHAGE; JEWRY, CYPRUS, TROY, AND ETRURIA.Chapter 22 CHAPTER X. THE SWORD IN BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA AND PERSIA, AND ANCIENT INDIA.Chapter 24 CHAPTER XI. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ.Chapter 26 CHAPTER XII. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT ROME; THE LEGION AND THE GLADIATOR.Chapter 28 CHAPTER XIII. THE SWORD AMONGST THE BARBARIANS (EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE).Chapter 30 CONCLUSION.INDEX.FOOTNOTES:Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE