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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... developed in the eastern Mediterranean , reach the Carib- bean ? Why was there no fiery kimchi in Korea before Christopher Columbus found chili pepper plants in the New World ? How did the United States cur- rency get its name from a ...
... developed in the eastern Mediterranean , reach the Carib- bean ? Why was there no fiery kimchi in Korea before Christopher Columbus found chili pepper plants in the New World ? How did the United States cur- rency get its name from a ...
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... developed different languages and cultures as well . The period of divergence came to a close with the end of the Ice Age . Traders , preachers , soldiers , and adventurers from the emerging urban civiliza- tions of the Levant , India ...
... developed different languages and cultures as well . The period of divergence came to a close with the end of the Ice Age . Traders , preachers , soldiers , and adventurers from the emerging urban civiliza- tions of the Levant , India ...
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... developed West . The drive to integrate the globe , gathering speed since the adventurous jour- ney out of Africa eons ago , will be hard to stop . But given how closely our fate is intertwined , even a temporary derailment now could be ...
... developed West . The drive to integrate the globe , gathering speed since the adventurous jour- ney out of Africa eons ago , will be hard to stop . But given how closely our fate is intertwined , even a temporary derailment now could be ...
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... developed in the third millennium bce between the Sumerian civilization in the Fertile Crescent and the Indus Valley was or was not a continuation of a much earlier link. As we will see, the Indus and Euphrates-Tigris Valley trade was ...
... developed in the third millennium bce between the Sumerian civilization in the Fertile Crescent and the Indus Valley was or was not a continuation of a much earlier link. As we will see, the Indus and Euphrates-Tigris Valley trade was ...
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... developed highly spe- cialized toolkits, including bone needles that allowed them to sew together an- imal skins into clothing that provided warmth at temperatures not unlike those on the moon, but still allowed the mobility necessary ...
... developed highly spe- cialized toolkits, including bone needles that allowed them to sew together an- imal skins into clothing that provided warmth at temperatures not unlike those on the moon, but still allowed the mobility necessary ...
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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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