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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... Christian missionaries and Islamic preachers, often backed by the sword, have converted millions in foreign lands. In the modern period, a new kind of secular missionary has joined to link the world even more closely—in the name of the ...
... Christian missionaries and Islamic preachers, often backed by the sword, have converted millions in foreign lands. In the modern period, a new kind of secular missionary has joined to link the world even more closely—in the name of the ...
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... Christian put it, “With humans now settled throughout the world, this severing of ancient links threatened to divide humans into separate populations with separate histories.”46 What emerged instead were four world zones: Afro-Eurasian ...
... Christian put it, “With humans now settled throughout the world, this severing of ancient links threatened to divide humans into separate populations with separate histories.”46 What emerged instead were four world zones: Afro-Eurasian ...
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... Christian notes, most of the universal religions appeared in the hub region between Mesopotamia and northern India ... Christianity and Islam that were to follow in half-millennium intervals, was a missionary faith. After Gautam attained ...
... Christian notes, most of the universal religions appeared in the hub region between Mesopotamia and northern India ... Christianity and Islam that were to follow in half-millennium intervals, was a missionary faith. After Gautam attained ...
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... Christian era who transported merchandise by camel caravans on the Silk Road or the Dutch traders who shipped cloves from Southeast Asia. But if one examines the essence of what they did—making profit by producing and transporting goods ...
... Christian era who transported merchandise by camel caravans on the Silk Road or the Dutch traders who shipped cloves from Southeast Asia. But if one examines the essence of what they did—making profit by producing and transporting goods ...
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... Christian era. Although the domestication of camels got under way between 3000 and 2000 bce in the Horn of Africa, it was not until sometime between 500 bce and 200 ce that the “North Arabian saddle” was invented and traders in the ...
... Christian era. Although the domestication of camels got under way between 3000 and 2000 bce in the Horn of Africa, it was not until sometime between 500 bce and 200 ce that the “North Arabian saddle” was invented and traders in the ...
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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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