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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... communities , globalization , as a trend , has been with us since the beginning of history . The same forces , sometimes with different names , are at work today in connecting the world ever faster and tighter . Multinational companies ...
... communities , globalization , as a trend , has been with us since the beginning of history . The same forces , sometimes with different names , are at work today in connecting the world ever faster and tighter . Multinational companies ...
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... communities. The result of their proselytizing zeal is the domination of the world by three major religions. Buddhist pilgrims and preachers took their faith to distant cor- ners, in the process transforming the world's art, culture ...
... communities. The result of their proselytizing zeal is the domination of the world by three major religions. Buddhist pilgrims and preachers took their faith to distant cor- ners, in the process transforming the world's art, culture ...
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... communities and 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 ...
... communities and 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 ...
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... communities. THE HIDDEN STORY OF A JOURNEY How do we know that we all are originally from Africa? Twenty years ago the proposition was mostly guesswork. In his work on human evolution The De- scent of Man, and Selection in Relation to ...
... communities. THE HIDDEN STORY OF A JOURNEY How do we know that we all are originally from Africa? Twenty years ago the proposition was mostly guesswork. In his work on human evolution The De- scent of Man, and Selection in Relation to ...
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... communities of farmers that supported specialist craftworkers, priests, and chiefs. Those who remained hunter-gatherers mostly took to the pastoral life, emerging as the ambulatory connector between settled communities. With surplus ...
... communities of farmers that supported specialist craftworkers, priests, and chiefs. Those who remained hunter-gatherers mostly took to the pastoral life, emerging as the ambulatory connector between settled communities. With surplus ...
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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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