book includes discussion of early writing and currency in ancient China (Ch. 3); helots and women in Sparta (Ch. 4); Roman children and early Christianity (Ch. 5); Arab science and philosophy, the arrival of the Turks in the Middle East, and early Arab seafaring technology (Ch. 7); Chinese cartography and trade relations (Chapter 10); the role of peasant women (Chapter 12); and women in the Byzantine empire (new section in Ch. 13). New and revised material in the second half of the text includes coverage of the Indian textile industry (Ch. 16); the lower classes and prostitution, mass leisure, and mass consumption (Ch. 20); Nazi culture and totalitarianism (Ch. 25); social and cultural conditions in Eastern Europe, and conditions in contemporary China (Ch. 27); conditions in contemporary Africa, and discussion of Arab Spring (Ch. 29)."

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