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Richard Francis Sir Burton. The Book of the Sword
The Book of the Sword
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
LIST OF AUTHORITIES
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 IV. THE PROTO-CHALCITIC OR COPPER AGE OF WEAPONS
CHAPTER V. THE SECOND CHALCITIC AGE OF ALLOYS[242]—BRONZE, BRASS, ETC.: THE AXE AND THE SWORD
CHAPTER VI. THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS
CHAPTER VII. THE SWORD: WHAT IS IT?
CHAPTER VIII. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND IN MODERN AFRICA
CHAPTER IX. THE SWORD IN KHITA-LAND, PALESTINE AND CANAAN; PHŒNICIA AND CARTHAGE; JEWRY, CYPRUS, TROY, AND ETRURIA
CHAPTER X. THE SWORD IN BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA AND PERSIA, AND ANCIENT INDIA
CHAPTER XI. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ
CHAPTER XII. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT ROME; THE LEGION AND THE GLADIATOR
CHAPTER XIII. THE SWORD AMONGST THE BARBARIANS (EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE)
CONCLUSION
INDEX
Footnote
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Richard Francis Sir Burton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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To conclude. I return grateful thanks to the many mitwerkers who have assisted me in preparing this monograph; no more need be said, as all names will be mentioned in the course of the work. A journey to the Gold Coast and its results, in two volumes, which describe its wealth, must plead my excuse for the delay in bringing out the book. The manuscript was sent home from Lisbon in December 1881, but the ‘tyranny of circumstance’ has withheld it for nearly two years.
RICHARD F. BURTON.
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