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Chapter 9 Goliardic poetry.

Chapter 10 King John; Magna Carta; King Philip Augustus; the French Parlement; revision of Film & History feature on The Lion in Winter; the rise of the mendicant orders; the Crusades; new Images of Everyday Life feature on “Monastic Life in the Middle Ages.”

Chapter 11 new section on “The Black Death: From Asia to Europe,” with subsection on “Role of the Mongols”; revised section on “The Black Death in Europe”; new Opposing Viewpoints feature on “The Black Death: Contemporary Views.”

Chapter 12 the impact of the Italian wars on Machiavelli; the studia humanitatis; the Spanish expulsion of the Jews and Muslims; the threat of the Ottoman Turks to the West; women in the home in the Italian Renaissance.

Chapter 13 Erasmus’s New Testament scholarship; Thomas More; Luther and the Christian humanists; Luther and the peasants; Luther and predestination; the empire of Charles V; political motives of popes and monarchs; the Ottoman Turks; the meaning of the Catholic Reformation.

Chapter 14 new Images of Everyday Life feature on “The Role of Spices in World Trade”; revision of introduction to include a more concise road map of the chapter; viceroys in Spain’s Latin American empire; impact of slave trade on Africa; products of the Columbian Exchange, including cochineal; mercantilism.

Chapter 15 new Opposing Viewpoints feature on “Oliver Cromwell: Three Perspectives”; the causes of the Bohemian phase of the Thirty Years’ War; the consequences of the Peace of Westphalia; Bishop Bossuet; the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; Colbert and the finances of Louis XIV’s reign; how “Western” Russia was before Peter the Great.

Chapter 16 Antoine Lavoisier and his wife; the state and science.

Chapter 17 travel literature and the concept of race; the connection between the philosophes and the revolutionary upheaval at the end of the eighteenth century; new Film & History feature on Amadeus.

Chapter 18 revision of Film & History feature on Marie Antoinette; new Opposing Viewpoints feature on “Enlightened Absolutism: Enlightened or Absolute?”

Chapter 20 iron production, especially pig iron and wrought iron; the Crystal Palace, especially the display of handmade goods; reorganized material in newly titled section, “Industrialization on the Continent”; women in the Chartist movement; new Opposing Viewpoints feature on “Attitudes of the Industrial Middle Class in Britain and Japan”; new Images of Everyday Life feature on “Living Conditions of the London Poor.”

Chapter 21 the independence movement in Latin America.

Chapter 22 nation building (in the introduction); the Crimean War; new Opposing Viewpoints feature on “The Practice of Realpolitik: Two Approaches”; new Film & History feature on The Young Victoria.

Chapter 23 the national state (in the introduction); the reconstruction of Paris; codes of masculinity in the Boy Scout movement in Great Britain; new section on “Mass Consumption,” including material on masculine participation in the new consumer culture.

Chapter 24 new introduction to the chapter; Modernism in literature and the arts, including a new Cézanne illustration; revised Images of Everyday Life feature on “The Struggle for the Right to Vote”; the Dreyfus affair; David Lloyd George as chancellor of the Exchequer; imperialism, especially the impact of British rule on women in India; new section on “The Boer War”; French architecture in Southeast Asia.

Chapter 25 the outbreak of World War I, especially Austria’s role; enthusiasm for the outbreak of war; the German invasion of Belgium; fighting in the African colonies; the motives of colonial subjects in fighting for their European rulers; revised material on the Turkish genocide of the Armenians; revision of the discussion of the peace settlement.

Chapter 26 the League of Nations, including protection of minorities; the Great Depression; self-rule for India; the structure and functioning of the Weimar Republic; Hitler’s trial; the Enabling Act; the Soviet Union; new material on the Spanish Civil War;