Blood rites: origins and history of the passions of war

1. The Ecstasy of War --

2. Sacred Meat --

3. The True Mark of the Beast --

4. The First Blood Sacrifice --

5. The Rebellion Against the Beast --

6. When the Predator Had a Woman's Face --

7. "A Rough Male Sport" --

8. Fearful Symmetries --

9. The Warrior Elite --

10. The Sacralization of War --

11. Guns and the Democratization of Glory --

12. An Imagined Bestiary --

13. Three Cases of War Worship --

14. The Further Evolution of War in the Twentieth Century.