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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... Islam, born in the deserts of Arabia, win over a billion converts in the world? How did Europeans learn to play the violin with a bowstring— made of Mongolian horsehair? Or, for that matter, how did the ninth-century Arab mathematician ...
... Islam, born in the deserts of Arabia, win over a billion converts in the world? How did Europeans learn to play the violin with a bowstring— made of Mongolian horsehair? Or, for that matter, how did the ninth-century Arab mathematician ...
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... 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 environment and various ...
... 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 environment and various ...
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... Islam that were to follow in half-millennium intervals, was a missionary faith. After Gautam attained the enlightenment to become the Buddha, he decided not to be content in his own bliss but to go forth and explain his way to the world ...
... Islam that were to follow in half-millennium intervals, was a missionary faith. After Gautam attained the enlightenment to become the Buddha, he decided not to be content in his own bliss but to go forth and explain his way to the world ...
الصفحة 32
... Islamic faith that arose in seventh-century Arabia in response to the hedonism and corruption brought by trade was driven by messianic zeal in converting the nonbelievers. As we will see, in the centuries to come the proselytizing ...
... Islamic faith that arose in seventh-century Arabia in response to the hedonism and corruption brought by trade was driven by messianic zeal in converting the nonbelievers. As we will see, in the centuries to come the proselytizing ...
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... Islamic market.13 In the second to fifth centuries, traders leading camel caravans opened up new population settlements in formerly unknown areas of sub-Saharan Africa. By the fourth century, gold from the sub-Saharan region was ...
... Islamic market.13 In the second to fifth centuries, traders leading camel caravans opened up new population settlements in formerly unknown areas of sub-Saharan Africa. By the fourth century, gold from the sub-Saharan region was ...
المحتوى
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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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