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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... Muslim traders from North Africa carried the Islamic faith to Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and beyond. In the Senegambian language, the word Muslim became synonymous with trader.14 In the seventh and eighth centuries, China's Tang dynasty ...
... Muslim traders from North Africa carried the Islamic faith to Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and beyond. In the Senegambian language, the word Muslim became synonymous with trader.14 In the seventh and eighth centuries, China's Tang dynasty ...
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... Muslim world all moved around the globe.39 Another town on the Persian Gulf, Siraf, rode the monsoon trade with Africa, India, and China to unprecedented prosperity. Trading inspired the growth of a range of professions: shipwrights ...
... Muslim world all moved around the globe.39 Another town on the Persian Gulf, Siraf, rode the monsoon trade with Africa, India, and China to unprecedented prosperity. Trading inspired the growth of a range of professions: shipwrights ...
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... Muslim traders—descendants of Arab and Persian traders from the ninth century.44 Clearly, traders had not only ... Muslims returned home with a new taste for spices and other Asian luxuries, creating fresh demand for imports. As ...
... Muslim traders—descendants of Arab and Persian traders from the ninth century.44 Clearly, traders had not only ... Muslims returned home with a new taste for spices and other Asian luxuries, creating fresh demand for imports. As ...
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... Muslim trading enclaves dotted the northern shores of Sumatra and Java.51 Prosperous and devout traders also had success in converting locals to Islam. In 1409 a Malay prince, Parameswaram, sought to capitalize on the region's growing ...
... Muslim trading enclaves dotted the northern shores of Sumatra and Java.51 Prosperous and devout traders also had success in converting locals to Islam. In 1409 a Malay prince, Parameswaram, sought to capitalize on the region's growing ...
الصفحة 53
... Muslims to emerge as the near-exclusive distributor of spice in Europe. Italian city-states played this role even during ... Muslim merchant from Tunis asked him in Spanish, “The devil take you, what brought you here?” His succinct reply ...
... Muslims to emerge as the near-exclusive distributor of spice in Europe. Italian city-states played this role even during ... Muslim merchant from Tunis asked him in Spanish, “The devil take you, what brought you here?” His succinct reply ...
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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