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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الصفحة x
... connected world we inhabit, but it does not explain how human life was globalized long before capitalism was formulated or electricity invented. Many recent books, notably Thomas L. Friedman's The WorldIs Flat, have explained how mobile ...
... connected world we inhabit, but it does not explain how human life was globalized long before capitalism was formulated or electricity invented. Many recent books, notably Thomas L. Friedman's The WorldIs Flat, have explained how mobile ...
الصفحة xi
... connected with another part of the world, however remotely. Today's capitalist business model can explain why Starbucks coffee—an iconic symbol of globalization—is sold in thousands of locations around the world or why Japan's Canon ...
... connected with another part of the world, however remotely. Today's capitalist business model can explain why Starbucks coffee—an iconic symbol of globalization—is sold in thousands of locations around the world or why Japan's Canon ...
الصفحة xii
... connecting the world ever faster and tighter. Multinational companies, nongovernmental organizations, activists, migrants, and tourists have been continuing the process of integration that began thousands of years ago. This book is thus ...
... connecting the world ever faster and tighter. Multinational companies, nongovernmental organizations, activists, migrants, and tourists have been continuing the process of integration that began thousands of years ago. This book is thus ...
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... connecting with one another, launching the process of globalization. Chapter 2, “From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce,” traces the growth of trade from the dawn of human civilization to the present, showing how it has connected an ...
... connecting with one another, launching the process of globalization. Chapter 2, “From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce,” traces the growth of trade from the dawn of human civilization to the present, showing how it has connected an ...
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... connecting with different human 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 corners, in the process ...
... connecting with different human 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 corners, in the process ...
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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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