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, for instance, began to work like banks, taking deposits in gold and silver from their employees abroad, who were independently wealthy from their private business, and promising to pay out the value of deposits back in the ...
... Companies, for instance, began to work like banks, taking deposits in gold and silver from their employees abroad, who were independently wealthy from their private business, and promising to pay out the value of deposits back in the ...
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... companies were able to acquire the virtually brand-new optical information highways at discounts of 95 percent or more.93 India's telecom giant VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam, Ltd.) acquired the old AT&T undersea fiber-optic cable network ...
... companies were able to acquire the virtually brand-new optical information highways at discounts of 95 percent or more.93 India's telecom giant VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam, Ltd.) acquired the old AT&T undersea fiber-optic cable network ...
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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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