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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... French, Russian, and German.67 Beside this “plow school” of explanation for the spread of Indo-European languages, another school offers the power of the sword as the explanation. This theory argues that Indo-European languages were ...
... French, Russian, and German.67 Beside this “plow school” of explanation for the spread of Indo-European languages, another school offers the power of the sword as the explanation. This theory argues that Indo-European languages were ...
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... French trader Jean de la Roque led the first French ship around the Cape of Good Hope to Aden and Mocha. He undertook this dangerous yearlong voyage to get coffee beans from the source rather than at a high price from Turkish, Dutch, or ...
... French trader Jean de la Roque led the first French ship around the Cape of Good Hope to Aden and Mocha. He undertook this dangerous yearlong voyage to get coffee beans from the source rather than at a high price from Turkish, Dutch, or ...
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... French engineer Ferdinand Carré, in 1877opened up a whole new area of long-distance trade: fresh food. Argentine beef and Australian leg of lamb could now be served for supper in Europe. As Kenneth Pomeranz has written: By vastly ...
... French engineer Ferdinand Carré, in 1877opened up a whole new area of long-distance trade: fresh food. Argentine beef and Australian leg of lamb could now be served for supper in Europe. As Kenneth Pomeranz has written: By vastly ...
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... French government stopped honoring bank notes promising gold. A second round of impetus to international trade, however, came from the New World—specifically from California—with the discovery of significant gold deposits. Australia and ...
... French government stopped honoring bank notes promising gold. A second round of impetus to international trade, however, came from the New World—specifically from California—with the discovery of significant gold deposits. Australia and ...
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... French had developed a visual signaling system across long distances, using tall towers and movable arms. From Roman times to Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte, however, long-distance messaging was generally for the exclusive use of ...
... French had developed a visual signaling system across long distances, using tall towers and movable arms. From Roman times to Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte, however, long-distance messaging was generally for the exclusive use of ...
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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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