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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... Korea before Christopher 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 ...
... Korea before Christopher 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 ...
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... Korea. The grassland hunters of the M89 lineage traveled both east and west along this steppe “superhighway” and eventually peopled much of Eurasia. My genome report told me that my ancestors were in the larger group that veered east ...
... Korea. The grassland hunters of the M89 lineage traveled both east and west along this steppe “superhighway” and eventually peopled much of Eurasia. My genome report told me that my ancestors were in the larger group that veered east ...
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... . Around thirty-five thousand years ago the descendants of M175 and subsidiary markers largely populated Korea and northern China. With the exception of such minorities as Uighur, Kazak, Kirghiz, The African Beginning 15.
... . Around thirty-five thousand years ago the descendants of M175 and subsidiary markers largely populated Korea and northern China. With the exception of such minorities as Uighur, Kazak, Kirghiz, The African Beginning 15.
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... Korean peninsula and the cold-resistant rice strain was developed. Some twenty-three hundred years ago people carrying the same genetic markers as Southeast Asians and Koreans sailed to the southern Japanese islands.38 The farmer ...
... Korean peninsula and the cold-resistant rice strain was developed. Some twenty-three hundred years ago people carrying the same genetic markers as Southeast Asians and Koreans sailed to the southern Japanese islands.38 The farmer ...
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... Korea some thirty-five thousand years ago. Of course, as Darwin speculated, other factors, such as particular tastes of individuals in “sex selection,” could have been at play. Cavalli-Sforza suggests that it is very likely that some ...
... Korea some thirty-five thousand years ago. Of course, as Darwin speculated, other factors, such as particular tastes of individuals in “sex selection,” could have been at play. Cavalli-Sforza suggests that it is very likely that some ...
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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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