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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... Columbus found chili pepper plants in the New World? How did the United States currency get its name from a German silver-mining town? Why are the grapes that yielded the first barrel of wine in California called mission grapes? How did ...
... Columbus found chili pepper plants in the New World? How did the United States currency get its name from a German silver-mining town? Why are the grapes that yielded the first barrel of wine in California called mission grapes? How did ...
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... Columbus's encounter with the Arawak on the shores of San Salvador in 1492 that the long-separated human cousins from Africa would meet each other.7 More about that later. First, we will see how our ancestors succeeded in making humans ...
... Columbus's encounter with the Arawak on the shores of San Salvador in 1492 that the long-separated human cousins from Africa would meet each other.7 More about that later. First, we will see how our ancestors succeeded in making humans ...
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... Columbus. Geneticists have been surprised to discover that Italian and Finnish populations share genetic links with some Native Americans. There is enough mutation on the marker to make it at least ten thousand years old and therefore ...
... Columbus. Geneticists have been surprised to discover that Italian and Finnish populations share genetic links with some Native Americans. There is enough mutation on the marker to make it at least ten thousand years old and therefore ...
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... Columbus's effort to find a direct route to India across the Atlantic. The result of this effort was a sudden widening of the horizon. Within two decades of Columbus's serendipitous discovery of the New World, Ferdinand Magellan's crew ...
... Columbus's effort to find a direct route to India across the Atlantic. The result of this effort was a sudden widening of the horizon. Within two decades of Columbus's serendipitous discovery of the New World, Ferdinand Magellan's crew ...
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... Columbus died a disappointed soul, having failed to find the golden-roofed houses of Cipangu in Japan, as described by Marco Polo, huge quantities of precious metal were soon found in Mexico and Peru. As one historian has put it, it was ...
... Columbus died a disappointed soul, having failed to find the golden-roofed houses of Cipangu in Japan, as described by Marco Polo, huge quantities of precious metal were soon found in Mexico and Peru. As one historian has put it, it was ...
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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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