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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الصفحة xiii
... faith . By the exponential growth in their numbers , consumers have emerged as the newest category of globaliz- ers . In a way , each one of us is a participant and an actor in this process in our various roles . A huge exception has ...
... faith . By the exponential growth in their numbers , consumers have emerged as the newest category of globaliz- ers . In a way , each one of us is a participant and an actor in this process in our various roles . A huge exception has ...
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... faith to distant cor- ners, in the process transforming the world's art, culture, and society. Christian missionaries and Islamic preachers, often backed by the sword, have converted millions in foreign lands. In the modern period, a ...
... faith to distant cor- ners, in the process transforming the world's art, culture, and society. Christian missionaries and Islamic preachers, often backed by the sword, have converted millions in foreign lands. In the modern period, a ...
الصفحة 31
... FAITH Religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts that give meaning to human exis- tence has been a part of human life since the beginning. In the early millennia of the rise of agriculture, the cult of the Mother Goddess, the source ...
... FAITH Religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts that give meaning to human exis- tence has been a part of human life since the beginning. In the early millennia of the rise of agriculture, the cult of the Mother Goddess, the source ...
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... faith that arose in seventh - century Arabia in response to the hedonism and corruption brought by trade was driven by messianic zeal in converting the nonbelievers . As we will see , in the centuries to come the prose- lytizing spirit ...
... faith that arose in seventh - century Arabia in response to the hedonism and corruption brought by trade was driven by messianic zeal in converting the nonbelievers . As we will see , in the centuries to come the prose- lytizing spirit ...
الصفحة 43
... faith to Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and beyond. In the Senegambian language, the word Muslim became synonymous with trader.14 In the seventh and eighth centuries, China's Tang dynasty capital, Chang'an, now Xian, was the eastern terminus ...
... faith to Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and beyond. In the Senegambian language, the word Muslim became synonymous with trader.14 In the seventh and eighth centuries, China's Tang dynasty capital, Chang'an, now Xian, was the eastern terminus ...
المحتوى
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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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