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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... electronic databases since the 1970s shows that the use of the word grew rapidly in the 1990s, when deregulation and technological advances drove worldwide trading and investment. The word's meaning and us- age has changed in tandem ...
... electronic databases since the 1970s shows that the use of the word grew rapidly in the 1990s, when deregulation and technological advances drove worldwide trading and investment. The word's meaning and us- age has changed in tandem ...
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... electronic bank transfers and online payment systems like PayPal. These developments enabled the speedy transportation of large quantities of goods, and the consumer base and the number of traders and entrepreneurs also grew ...
... electronic bank transfers and online payment systems like PayPal. These developments enabled the speedy transportation of large quantities of goods, and the consumer base and the number of traders and entrepreneurs also grew ...
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... electronic network that emerged in the 1970s has since made transcontinental commerce a snap. Gold and silver have long since disappeared as currencies, but plastic cards bearing those same metallic colors have taken their place to ...
... electronic network that emerged in the 1970s has since made transcontinental commerce a snap. Gold and silver have long since disappeared as currencies, but plastic cards bearing those same metallic colors have taken their place to ...
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... electronic revolution swept the world. In the mid-1960s a Yale undergraduate named Fred Smith wrote a paper on how the power of the computer could be harnessed to deliver packages overnight. The germ of Smith's idea took shape in 1970 ...
... electronic revolution swept the world. In the mid-1960s a Yale undergraduate named Fred Smith wrote a paper on how the power of the computer could be harnessed to deliver packages overnight. The germ of Smith's idea took shape in 1970 ...
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... electronics revolution—particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web. In 1976, a brilliant twenty-one ... electronic toy for hobbyists into a powerful tool of productivity for individuals. By the 1990s the Internet emerged ...
... electronics revolution—particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web. In 1976, a brilliant twenty-one ... electronic toy for hobbyists into a powerful tool of productivity for individuals. By the 1990s the Internet emerged ...
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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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