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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... Cotton , originally grown in India , spread to the world before being supplanted by American cotton . Coffee , known only to the Arab world at one stage , has conquered the globe , providing employment to millions of people whose ...
... Cotton , originally grown in India , spread to the world before being supplanted by American cotton . Coffee , known only to the Arab world at one stage , has conquered the globe , providing employment to millions of people whose ...
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... cotton fiber into cloth—emerged as Mesopotamia's biggest trade partner.17 We have seen the Akkadian ruler Sargon's boast that ships of Meluhha, the Sumerian name for South Asia, and other lands were docked in the quay of his capital on ...
... cotton fiber into cloth—emerged as Mesopotamia's biggest trade partner.17 We have seen the Akkadian ruler Sargon's boast that ships of Meluhha, the Sumerian name for South Asia, and other lands were docked in the quay of his capital on ...
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... cotton textiles, and manufacturing bronze artifacts and steel swords attracted foreign traders to India. India's early success in ex- ports was built on the organization of ivory-carvers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, and a whole range of ...
... cotton textiles, and manufacturing bronze artifacts and steel swords attracted foreign traders to India. India's early success in ex- ports was built on the organization of ivory-carvers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, and a whole range of ...
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... cotton.67 Forty-five years later the opening of Panama Canal brought the Pacific closer to the West, shortening the distance from New York to San Francisco by 60 per- cent and to Hong Kong by 30 percent. Not until the advent of air ...
... cotton.67 Forty-five years later the opening of Panama Canal brought the Pacific closer to the West, shortening the distance from New York to San Francisco by 60 per- cent and to Hong Kong by 30 percent. Not until the advent of air ...
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... cotton for the German mills and Asian spices for European consumption.74 The primacy of German - minted silver coins of that era is still being felt centuries later . The U.S. currency , the dollar , received its name from the ...
... cotton for the German mills and Asian spices for European consumption.74 The primacy of German - minted silver coins of that era is still being felt centuries later . The U.S. currency , the dollar , received its name from the ...
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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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