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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... created today's instantaneously connected, interdependent world. Economic historians like Kevin O'Rourke and John G. Williamson have shown how the transportation revolution in the late nineteenth century kicked off large-scale trade and ...
... created today's instantaneously connected, interdependent world. Economic historians like Kevin O'Rourke and John G. Williamson have shown how the transportation revolution in the late nineteenth century kicked off large-scale trade and ...
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... created what Roland Robertson calls “intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole.”2 Despite his distaste for “globalization,” electrician Jerry's concern for the health of the planet squarely places him among the globally ...
... created what Roland Robertson calls “intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole.”2 Despite his distaste for “globalization,” electrician Jerry's concern for the health of the planet squarely places him among the globally ...
الصفحة xiii
... to the prepared and challenge to the unready. If one accepts the essential continuity of the forces that have created the increasingly integrated world, one cannot but see globalization as an unstoppable Introduction xiii.
... to the prepared and challenge to the unready. If one accepts the essential continuity of the forces that have created the increasingly integrated world, one cannot but see globalization as an unstoppable Introduction xiii.
الصفحة xv
... creating a varied gene pool and diffusing cultures. Political edifices built by imperial rulers—from the Romans to the British Empire—promoted legal and linguistic unity and the exchange of plant and animal species across the globe ...
... creating a varied gene pool and diffusing cultures. Political edifices built by imperial rulers—from the Romans to the British Empire—promoted legal and linguistic unity and the exchange of plant and animal species across the globe ...
الصفحة xvi
... created an integrated world in which many have been lifted from poverty, but the speeding pace of globalization has left nearly a third of the world's population by the wayside. The global challenge ahead will be somehow to bring into ...
... created an integrated world in which many have been lifted from poverty, but the speeding pace of globalization has left nearly a third of the world's population by the wayside. The global challenge ahead will be somehow to bring into ...
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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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