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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... capital, trade, and technology have created today's instantaneously connected, interdependent world. Economic historians like Kevin O'Rourke and John G. Williamson have shown how the transportation revolution in the late nineteenth ...
... capital, trade, and technology have created today's instantaneously connected, interdependent world. Economic historians like Kevin O'Rourke and John G. Williamson have shown how the transportation revolution in the late nineteenth ...
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... capital and the entrepôt city of Kanis, in the Anatolian region of present-day Turkey. Long caravans, sometimes consisting of three hundred donkeys loaded with grain and wool, made the eight-hundred-mile journey, at the end of which ...
... capital and the entrepôt city of Kanis, in the Anatolian region of present-day Turkey. Long caravans, sometimes consisting of three hundred donkeys loaded with grain and wool, made the eight-hundred-mile journey, at the end of which ...
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... capital, Chang'an, now Xian, was the eastern terminus of the Silk Road. With a million inhabitants, it was not only the largest city in the world but, thanks to the presence of international traders and religious missionaries, the most ...
... capital, Chang'an, now Xian, was the eastern terminus of the Silk Road. With a million inhabitants, it was not only the largest city in the world but, thanks to the presence of international traders and religious missionaries, the most ...
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... capital of Baghdad rose to become the center of wealth and luxury as the terminus of eastern trade. As one Abbasid ruler proclaimed: “This is the Tigris; there is no obstacle between us and China; everything on the sea can come to us on ...
... capital of Baghdad rose to become the center of wealth and luxury as the terminus of eastern trade. As one Abbasid ruler proclaimed: “This is the Tigris; there is no obstacle between us and China; everything on the sea can come to us on ...
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... capital of Ulaanbaatar, using homing pigeons as messengers. The trading diasporas such as the Jewish traders in Cairo or on India's Malabar Coast used their goods carriers to carry mail, remaining copies of which have been found in the ...
... capital of Ulaanbaatar, using homing pigeons as messengers. The trading diasporas such as the Jewish traders in Cairo or on India's Malabar Coast used their goods carriers to carry mail, remaining copies of which have been found in the ...
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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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