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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... coffee—an iconic symbol of globalization—is sold in thousands of locations around the world or why Japan's Canon camera is a globally recognized brand. But the economic definition leaves other questions unanswered. How, for example, did ...
... coffee—an iconic symbol of globalization—is sold in thousands of locations around the world or why Japan's Canon camera is a globally recognized brand. But the economic definition leaves other questions unanswered. How, for example, did ...
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... Coffee, known only to the Arab world at one stage, has conquered the globe, providing employment to millions ofpeople whose ancestors never saw a coffee bean. The most powerful tool of today's globalization, the microchip, which has ...
... Coffee, known only to the Arab world at one stage, has conquered the globe, providing employment to millions ofpeople whose ancestors never saw a coffee bean. The most powerful tool of today's globalization, the microchip, which has ...
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... coffee. Early in the eighteenth century, French trader Jean de la Roque led the first French ship around the Cape of Good Hope to Aden and Mocha. He undertook this dangerous yearlong voyage to get coffee beans from the source rather ...
... coffee. Early in the eighteenth century, French trader Jean de la Roque led the first French ship around the Cape of Good Hope to Aden and Mocha. He undertook this dangerous yearlong voyage to get coffee beans from the source rather ...
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... coffee traders in Mocha, Yemen, 1710. Illustration from Jean de la Roque, Voyage de l'Arabie heureuse (Amsterdam: Steenhower, 1716) everything else. Workers in developed countries were losing jobs that. 71 3 The World Inside.
... coffee traders in Mocha, Yemen, 1710. Illustration from Jean de la Roque, Voyage de l'Arabie heureuse (Amsterdam: Steenhower, 1716) everything else. Workers in developed countries were losing jobs that. 71 3 The World Inside.
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... coffee wholesalers to purchase coffee from small producers at a fairtrade price without success. The gap between the suggested fair-trade price of $1.50 a pound and the 50 cents companies actually pay for a pound of coffee beans, they ...
... coffee wholesalers to purchase coffee from small producers at a fairtrade price without success. The gap between the suggested fair-trade price of $1.50 a pound and the 50 cents companies actually pay for a pound of coffee beans, they ...
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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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