The Book of the Sword
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1. Front matter2. FOREWORD.3. INTRODUCTION.4. LIST OF AUTHORITIES.5. CHAPTER I. PREAMBLE: ON THE ORIGIN OF WEAPONS.6. 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.7. CHAPTER III. THE WEAPONS OF THE AGE OF WOOD: THE BOOMERANG AND THE SWORD OF WOOD; OF STONE, AND OF WOOD AND STONE COMBINED.8. CHAPTER IV. THE PROTO-CHALCITIC OR COPPER AGE OF WEAPONS.9. CHAPTER V. THE SECOND CHALCITIC AGE OF ALLOYS[242]—BRONZE, BRASS, ETC.: THE AXE AND THE SWORD.10. CHAPTER VI. THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.11. CHAPTER VII. THE SWORD: WHAT IS IT?12. CHAPTER VIII. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND IN MODERN AFRICA.13. CHAPTER IX. THE SWORD IN KHITA-LAND, PALESTINE AND CANAAN; PHŒNICIA AND CARTHAGE; JEWRY, CYPRUS, TROY, AND ETRURIA.14. CHAPTER X. THE SWORD IN BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA AND PERSIA, AND ANCIENT INDIA.15. CHAPTER XI. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ.16. CHAPTER XII. THE SWORD IN ANCIENT ROME; THE LEGION AND THE GLADIATOR.17. CHAPTER XIII. THE SWORD AMONGST THE BARBARIANS (EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE).18. CONCLUSION.19. INDEX.20. FOOTNOTES: