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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... economic terms, as the “freedom and ability of individuals and firms to initiate voluntary economic transactions with residents of other countries.”1 Left-wing critics, echoing Karl Marx's observation about the “werewolfish hunger” of ...
... economic terms, as the “freedom and ability of individuals and firms to initiate voluntary economic transactions with residents of other countries.”1 Left-wing critics, echoing Karl Marx's observation about the “werewolfish hunger” of ...
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... economic definition leaves other questions unanswered. How, for example, did the coffee bean, grown first only in Ethiopia, end up in our cups after a journey through Java and Colombia? How did the name of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteswar ...
... economic definition leaves other questions unanswered. How, for example, did the coffee bean, grown first only in Ethiopia, end up in our cups after a journey through Java and Colombia? How did the name of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteswar ...
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... economic order has been taken by the workers in India's call centers and the software programmers who are connecting to the world over fiber-optic ca- bles—tying the world ever more tightly. Chapter 3, “The World Inside,” takes a closer ...
... economic order has been taken by the workers in India's call centers and the software programmers who are connecting to the world over fiber-optic ca- bles—tying the world ever more tightly. Chapter 3, “The World Inside,” takes a closer ...
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... economic growth and prosperity brought about by faster economic integration, globalization has emerged as a toxic word for some people. Protesters from Seattle to Cancún and Genoa to Hong Kong have dogged meetings of the World Trade ...
... economic growth and prosperity brought about by faster economic integration, globalization has emerged as a toxic word for some people. Protesters from Seattle to Cancún and Genoa to Hong Kong have dogged meetings of the World Trade ...
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... old tools and planting skills. These early migrants looking for cultivable land also encountered other clusters of settled communities. Apart from the economic “push” of negative stresses at home The African Beginning 25.
... old tools and planting skills. These early migrants looking for cultivable land also encountered other clusters of settled communities. Apart from the economic “push” of negative stresses at home The African Beginning 25.
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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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