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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... helped me to frame the rise of global awareness in a long - term perspective . A host of other books and articles that have aided me in weaving this narrative are acknowledged in the endnotes . Researching this book for more than six ...
... helped me to frame the rise of global awareness in a long - term perspective . A host of other books and articles that have aided me in weaving this narrative are acknowledged in the endnotes . Researching this book for more than six ...
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... helped to create the integrated world of today. Millions of migrants have left home in search of a better life, and millions of eager tourists, helped by modern trans- port, have built ever thickening bridges linking the globe. Chapter ...
... helped to create the integrated world of today. Millions of migrants have left home in search of a better life, and millions of eager tourists, helped by modern trans- port, have built ever thickening bridges linking the globe. Chapter ...
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... helped migrant traders and soldiers establish connections with distant agrarian settlements that had been inconceivable earlier . As we will see , thanks to the horse , the vast steppes that spanned Eurasia were turned into an immense ...
... helped migrant traders and soldiers establish connections with distant agrarian settlements that had been inconceivable earlier . As we will see , thanks to the horse , the vast steppes that spanned Eurasia were turned into an immense ...
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... helping humanity as a whole , tying our world even more firmly together . This rather schematic account of the human journey from Africa to the world does not pretend to be even a summary of the vast movement . It is an at- tempt to ...
... helping humanity as a whole , tying our world even more firmly together . This rather schematic account of the human journey from Africa to the world does not pretend to be even a summary of the vast movement . It is an at- tempt to ...
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... helped spawn a new type of trader like N. R. Narayana Murthy, the cofounder of India's leading software company, Infosys Technologies. Diminutive, bespectacled Murthy was a brilliant software engi- neer who came from a poor family ...
... helped spawn a new type of trader like N. R. Narayana Murthy, the cofounder of India's leading software company, Infosys Technologies. Diminutive, bespectacled Murthy was a brilliant software engi- neer who came from a poor family ...
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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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