Chaldea from the earliest times to the rise of Assyria (treated as a general introduction to the study of ancient history)
Series: Story of the nations -- no. 11
Publisher: Unwin
Published: 1887
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: History
Notes: Bibliography: p.xiii-xv.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 1. Mesopotamia- the mounds; title: the first searchers; title: 2. Layard and his work; title: 3. The ruins; title: 4. The Book of the past; title: the library of Nineveh; title: Chaldea: 1. Nomads and settlers; title: the four stages of culture; title: 2. The great races; title: chaper X of Genesis; title: 3. Turanian Chaldea; title: Shumir and Accad.; title: the beginnings of religion; title: 4. Cushites and Semites; title: early Chaldean history; title: 5. Babylonian religion; title: 6. Legends and stories; title: 7. Myths; title: heroes and the mythical epos; title: 8. Religion and mythology; title: Idolatory and anthropormorphism; title: the Chaldean legends and the Book of Genesis; title: retrospect.