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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Maps and Linear Barrier Lists
Acknowledgements
Technical Matters
Part I: Introductory
Prologue
Introduction – Why Walls?
Nomads
Part II: Survey
Chapter 1 Egypt, Mesopotamia and China – Early Riverine Empires and Irrigation Defence
Chapter 2 Greek World and Roman Empire – Barbarians and Local Nomads
Chapter 3 North African and Middle-Eastern Semi-arid Belt – Unification by Nomads Transcends Walls
Chapter 4 Northern Europe – Barbarians and Ancient Roads
Chapter 5 Eastern Europe – Multiple Barriers where Steppe and Europe Collide
Chapter 6 Bulgaria, Poland and the Kievan Rus – Early State Formation
Chapter 7 China I – Northern Expansion, Consolidated by Walls, Sets Off Nomad Irruptions
Chapter 8 Byzantine and Sasanian Empires – Collaboration of Foes
Chapter 9 Central Asia – Great Oasis Walls
Chapter 10 China II – Nomad Irruptions and Multiple Great Walls
Chapter 11 Russia – Defeating the Steppe Nomads
Chapter 12 Non-Eurasian Linear Barriers
Chapter 13 Summary of Survey Material Through History
Part III: Questions And Issues
Chapter 14 How Valid Are Those Four Linear Barrier Patterns?
Chapter 15 Motivations Other Than Pure Defence – Aggression and Assertion?
Chapter 16 Why Did Some Polities Not Build Linear Barriers?
Chapter 17 Strategies or Barriers – Which Really Defined Relations Between States and Nomads?
Chapter 18 Linear Barrier Building – A Successful or Failed Strategy?
Chapter 19 Visualisation and Functioning
Chapter 20 Construction and Maintenance
Chapter 21 Tactical Use of Static and Mobile Linear Barriers
Chapter 22 Movement of Animals and of People
Chapter 23 Harnessing Nature – Abatis and Hedges, Rivers, Canals and Seas
Part IV Aftermath
Chapter 24 The Naming of Linear Barriers
Chapter 25 Destruction, Discovery and Protection
Chapter 26 Reuse, Marking Borders, Renewed Building
Chapter 27 Linear Barriers – Historiography and Interpretation
Bibliography
Notes
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