Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped GlobalizationYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 416 من الصفحات A wide-ranging and original history of globalization, examining how it has developed and what it means for the futureSince humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day with increasing speed and ease. In the end, globalization—from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding ambitions of great empires—is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering across the globe. Chanda reviews and illustrates the economic and technological forces at play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global world. |
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... Africa to our addiction to the Internet. Chanda is a true global citizen. His book should be read in every home, school, business, and embassy in the world, and become a vital part of our common intellectual heritage.” —Ambassador Derek ...
... Africa to our addiction to the Internet. Chanda is a true global citizen. His book should be read in every home, school, business, and embassy in the world, and become a vital part of our common intellectual heritage.” —Ambassador Derek ...
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... African Beginning,” traces the initial globalization of the human species, when in the late Ice Age, a tiny group of our ancestors walked out of Africa in search of better food and security. In fifty thousand years of wandering along ...
... African Beginning,” traces the initial globalization of the human species, when in the late Ice Age, a tiny group of our ancestors walked out of Africa in search of better food and security. In fifty thousand years of wandering along ...
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... (Africa) on the walls of her temple (1473–58 BCE) “ In some telling of history, imagination provides the context for a truer meaning underneath. To begin understanding the story of globalization, there is ... Africa. 1 1 The African Beginning.
... (Africa) on the walls of her temple (1473–58 BCE) “ In some telling of history, imagination provides the context for a truer meaning underneath. To begin understanding the story of globalization, there is ... Africa. 1 1 The African Beginning.
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... African continent to a metaphorical village is not so far-fetched. Africa may be a vast land that is home to nearly a billion people today, but our human ancestors who walked out of Africa so long ago may have numbered just two thousand ...
... African continent to a metaphorical village is not so far-fetched. Africa may be a vast land that is home to nearly a billion people today, but our human ancestors who walked out of Africa so long ago may have numbered just two thousand ...
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... Africa” adventurers. Thousands of destitute and jobless Africans are again on the move as migrants. In a desperate attempt to find a better life in Europe and the Middle East, they are trudging across forbidding deserts and risking life ...
... Africa” adventurers. Thousands of destitute and jobless Africans are again on the move as migrants. In a desperate attempt to find a better life in Europe and the Middle East, they are trudging across forbidding deserts and risking life ...
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4 Preachers World | 105 |
5 World in Motion | 145 |
6 The Imperial Weave | 175 |
7 Slaves Germs and Trojan Horses | 209 |
From Buzzword to Curse | 245 |
9 Whos Afraid of Globalization? | 271 |
10 The Road Ahead | 305 |
Chronology | 321 |
Acknowledgments | 331 |
Notes | 335 |
Index | 373 |
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