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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... export to Kanis. Lamassi wrote to her husband on a clay tablet. “Since you left, Salim-ahum [another trader] has already built a house double the size! When will we be able to do the same?” she asked.3 Whether to make money to build a ...
... export to Kanis. Lamassi wrote to her husband on a clay tablet. “Since you left, Salim-ahum [another trader] has already built a house double the size! When will we be able to do the same?” she asked.3 Whether to make money to build a ...
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... export item on the Silk Road . They were not only the equivalent of luxury Mercedes Benz cars but were essential to building a powerful cavalry . China's Tang dynasty records show the government spent nearly a seventh of its annual ...
... export item on the Silk Road . They were not only the equivalent of luxury Mercedes Benz cars but were essential to building a powerful cavalry . China's Tang dynasty records show the government spent nearly a seventh of its annual ...
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... Exports from India were not just luxuries: even small monkeys from the subcontinent became popular pets for wealthy Mesopotamians! The Phoenicians who inhabited the east coast of the Mediterranean—Sidon and Tyre in present-day Lebanon ...
... Exports from India were not just luxuries: even small monkeys from the subcontinent became popular pets for wealthy Mesopotamians! The Phoenicians who inhabited the east coast of the Mediterranean—Sidon and Tyre in present-day Lebanon ...
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... exported to the Indian king of Barygaza, today's Broach, were “choice girls for the Royal Harem.”32 The fourteenth-century harem of rulers in Bengal reportedly boasted Chinese and “Roman” (European) concubines.33 Given the rigor of ...
... exported to the Indian king of Barygaza, today's Broach, were “choice girls for the Royal Harem.”32 The fourteenth-century harem of rulers in Bengal reportedly boasted Chinese and “Roman” (European) concubines.33 Given the rigor of ...
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... exported large quantities of elephant tusks to India, where artisans carved them into jewelry, ornaments, and religious icons for export to China and the Mediterranean.42 In addition to the old trading favorite—spices—the Indian ...
... exported large quantities of elephant tusks to India, where artisans carved them into jewelry, ornaments, and religious icons for export to China and the Mediterranean.42 In addition to the old trading favorite—spices—the Indian ...
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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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