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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... countries.”1 Left-wing critics, echoing Karl Marx's observation about the “werewolfish hunger” of capitalism reaching the four corners of the world, see globalization as synonymous with expansionist and ex- ploitative capitalism ...
... countries.”1 Left-wing critics, echoing Karl Marx's observation about the “werewolfish hunger” of capitalism reaching the four corners of the world, see globalization as synonymous with expansionist and ex- ploitative capitalism ...
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... countries my ancestors passed through before reaching their final destination. As a medical researcher put it, “The people you've met and the places you've seen are in your genome.”27The first station in this journey, like that of every ...
... countries my ancestors passed through before reaching their final destination. As a medical researcher put it, “The people you've met and the places you've seen are in your genome.”27The first station in this journey, like that of every ...
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... countries' workers joined in making the iPod: The microdrive that was the heart of the machine was made by Hitachi in Japan, the controller chip was made in South Korea, the Sony battery was as- sembled in China, the stereo digital-to ...
... countries' workers joined in making the iPod: The microdrive that was the heart of the machine was made by Hitachi in Japan, the controller chip was made in South Korea, the Sony battery was as- sembled in China, the stereo digital-to ...
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... country's gene pool! THE ARAB LATEEN SAIL AND CHINESE RUDDER By the time the long wars of the Crusades had ended and Islam had regained control of Jerusalem, long-distance trading had been given a new impetus. Western Europeans who had ...
... country's gene pool! THE ARAB LATEEN SAIL AND CHINESE RUDDER By the time the long wars of the Crusades had ended and Islam had regained control of Jerusalem, long-distance trading had been given a new impetus. Western Europeans who had ...
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... countries' economies—a network of trading cities connected by overland or sea routes, with the hinterlands producing ex- port items—became increasingly dependent on foreign trade. To some, trade brought unimaginable prosperity, to ...
... countries' economies—a network of trading cities connected by overland or sea routes, with the hinterlands producing ex- port items—became increasingly dependent on foreign trade. To some, trade brought unimaginable prosperity, to ...
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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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