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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... Mongolian horsehair? Or, for that matter, how did the ninth-century Arab mathematician al-Khwarizimi lend his name to the algorithms that now run the world of information? How did the economic model of growing sugarcane with slave labor ...
... Mongolian horsehair? Or, for that matter, how did the ninth-century Arab mathematician al-Khwarizimi lend his name to the algorithms that now run the world of information? How did the economic model of growing sugarcane with slave labor ...
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... Mongol imperial expansion and indeed the means of transportation well into the modern period. Horse-drawn streetcars served New York City until the late nineteenth century. David Anthony and colleagues' sleuthing of the bit mark on ...
... Mongol imperial expansion and indeed the means of transportation well into the modern period. Horse-drawn streetcars served New York City until the late nineteenth century. David Anthony and colleagues' sleuthing of the bit mark on ...
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... Mongols with 25 megameters.86 Humanity's growing mastery of the ocean and the age of exploration in the sixteenth century allowed for the first time in history the creation of the empires over which the sun never set. Economic ex ...
... Mongols with 25 megameters.86 Humanity's growing mastery of the ocean and the age of exploration in the sixteenth century allowed for the first time in history the creation of the empires over which the sun never set. Economic ex ...
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... Mongol Empire presided over its entire length. The journey on the backs of double-humped Bactrian camels from Afghanistan to Peking took a year to complete on the average, but goods did get delivered.11 A peaceful environment maintained ...
... Mongol Empire presided over its entire length. The journey on the backs of double-humped Bactrian camels from Afghanistan to Peking took a year to complete on the average, but goods did get delivered.11 A peaceful environment maintained ...
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... Mongol rule over China and Central Asia, postal stations were set up along the Silk Road to allow for the transcontinental delivery of information and business contracts. By the end of the twelfth century, Genghis Khan had set up a ...
... Mongol rule over China and Central Asia, postal stations were set up along the Silk Road to allow for the transcontinental delivery of information and business contracts. By the end of the twelfth century, Genghis Khan had set up a ...
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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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