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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... companies, nongovernmental organizations, activists, migrants, and tourists have been continuing the process of integration that began thousands of years ago. This book is thus the result of a personal quest for an understanding of, if ...
... companies, nongovernmental organizations, activists, migrants, and tourists have been continuing the process of integration that began thousands of years ago. This book is thus the result of a personal quest for an understanding of, if ...
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... companies transporting their goods on container ships. Another new actor pushing globalization today is the consumer, whose demand for cheaper and better goods and services is fueling the fire of global commerce. The likes of Amnesty ...
... companies transporting their goods on container ships. Another new actor pushing globalization today is the consumer, whose demand for cheaper and better goods and services is fueling the fire of global commerce. The likes of Amnesty ...
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... Companies in the early 1600s, marked a new stage and presaged the rise of global companies. From some five hundred at the end of the seventeenth century, multinationals now number more than sixty-three thousand. The number of consumers ...
... Companies in the early 1600s, marked a new stage and presaged the rise of global companies. From some five hundred at the end of the seventeenth century, multinationals now number more than sixty-three thousand. The number of consumers ...
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... Companies. When it came time to transport my newly pur- chased commodity, there was no need to go out in search of a camel driver or the owner of a Dutch fluyt or wait for the monsoon wind. I needed none of those things to obtain a ...
... Companies. When it came time to transport my newly pur- chased commodity, there was no need to go out in search of a camel driver or the owner of a Dutch fluyt or wait for the monsoon wind. I needed none of those things to obtain a ...
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... Companies. When it came time to transport my newly purchased commodity, there was no need to go out in search of a camel driver or the owner of a Dutch fluyt or wait for the monsoon wind. I needed none of those things to obtain a ...
... Companies. When it came time to transport my newly purchased commodity, there was no need to go out in search of a camel driver or the owner of a Dutch fluyt or wait for the monsoon wind. I needed none of those things to obtain a ...
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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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