The Arms and Armour of Arabia in the 18Th-19th and 20th Centuries - Robert Elgood
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In the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab nomads who inhabited a great stretch of the Near East from Aleppo in northern Syria to the southern shores of the Arabian peninsula continued a way of life virtually unchanged from the time of the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. Wars and raids were carried out by tribesmen armed like their ancestors with sword, mace and lance. Firearms came slowly to the Bedouin, and multishot weapons were very rare until the end of the nineteent...
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138 pp. Index. Coloured and b/w illustrations. The front of the dust jacket is glued to the front endpaper. [Binding: Hardbound] [BookCondition: Book good] [Publisher: Scolar press] [Auteur: ELGOOD, ROBERT] [Uitgever: Scolar press] [Jaar: 1994] [Titel: The...