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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... began thousands of years ago. This book is thus the result of a personal quest for an understanding of, if not answers to, some simple questions: Who are the globalizers, and how does one explain the global origins of everything that ...
... began thousands of years ago. This book is thus the result of a personal quest for an understanding of, if not answers to, some simple questions: Who are the globalizers, and how does one explain the global origins of everything that ...
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... began connecting with one another, launching the process of globalization. Chapter 2, “From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce,” traces the growth of trade from the dawn of human civilization to the present, showing how it has connected an ...
... began connecting with one another, launching the process of globalization. Chapter 2, “From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce,” traces the growth of trade from the dawn of human civilization to the present, showing how it has connected an ...
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... began to change. The sun got hotter and the air drier. There was less and less food as animals perished from drought or left the area in search of water. Villagers, too, chose to follow the herds to stay near food. As they trudged along ...
... began to change. The sun got hotter and the air drier. There was less and less food as animals perished from drought or left the area in search of water. Villagers, too, chose to follow the herds to stay near food. As they trudged along ...
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... began reconnecting with long-separated cousins across oceans and mountains. This process of reconnection—driven by adventurers, traders, preachers, and warriors—has grown thicker and faster with each passing year, integrating the world ...
... began reconnecting with long-separated cousins across oceans and mountains. This process of reconnection—driven by adventurers, traders, preachers, and warriors—has grown thicker and faster with each passing year, integrating the world ...
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... began moving westward across the steppes toward Europe. These migrants would form the bulk of present-day Europeans. Based on fossil evidence as well as on cave paintings in France, we know that reindeer of the cold tundra were then ...
... began moving westward across the steppes toward Europe. These migrants would form the bulk of present-day Europeans. Based on fossil evidence as well as on cave paintings in France, we know that reindeer of the cold tundra were then ...
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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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