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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... American cotton. Coffee, known only to the Arab world at one stage, has conquered the globe, providing employment to millions ofpeople whose ancestors never saw a coffee bean. The most powerful tool of today's globalization, the ...
... American cotton. Coffee, known only to the Arab world at one stage, has conquered the globe, providing employment to millions ofpeople whose ancestors never saw a coffee bean. The most powerful tool of today's globalization, the ...
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... scientist Francis S. Crick and his American colleague James D. Watson discovered the structure of DNA. “We've discovered the secret of life,” Crick announced with justifiable pride.3 With the discovery of the 4 The African Beginning.
... scientist Francis S. Crick and his American colleague James D. Watson discovered the structure of DNA. “We've discovered the secret of life,” Crick announced with justifiable pride.3 With the discovery of the 4 The African Beginning.
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... American colleague Rebecca Cann reached this conclusion at the University of California, Berkeley, by looking into a so-far ignored part of human DNA. Wilson and Cann's team collected 147 samples of mitochondrial DNA from baby placentas ...
... American colleague Rebecca Cann reached this conclusion at the University of California, Berkeley, by looking into a so-far ignored part of human DNA. Wilson and Cann's team collected 147 samples of mitochondrial DNA from baby placentas ...
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... American!” After the publication of his column he received a flood of e-mails. One particularly droll one read, “Welcome to the club. But look out while driving in NewJersey.” However, the African continent alone cannot lay sole claim ...
... American!” After the publication of his column he received a flood of e-mails. One particularly droll one read, “Welcome to the club. But look out while driving in NewJersey.” However, the African continent alone cannot lay sole claim ...
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... American DNA reveals that over 90 percent of Indians carry the Y chromosome ofa man who has been dubbed the Native American Adam.42 He lived roughly 22,500 years ago and sprang from the lineage that had lived in Siberia and Central ...
... American DNA reveals that over 90 percent of Indians carry the Y chromosome ofa man who has been dubbed the Native American Adam.42 He lived roughly 22,500 years ago and sprang from the lineage that had lived in Siberia and Central ...
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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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