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 xii
... humans out of Africa some fifty thousand years ago . Out of the necessity for survival , these people were the first ... human communities . I have abandoned the conventional for- mat of presenting a linear history of a particular people ...
... humans out of Africa some fifty thousand years ago . Out of the necessity for survival , these people were the first ... human communities . I have abandoned the conventional for- mat of presenting a linear history of a particular people ...
الصفحة xiii
... human desire for a better life and greater security that prompted traders to brave the waves , the same political ambition of warriors to occupy foreign lands , the same urge for preachers to set out to convert others to their ideas of ...
... human desire for a better life and greater security that prompted traders to brave the waves , the same political ambition of warriors to occupy foreign lands , the same urge for preachers to set out to convert others to their ideas of ...
الصفحة xiv
... human species , when in the late Ice Age , a tiny group of our ancestors walked out of Africa in search of better food and security . In fifty thousand years of wandering along ocean coasts and chasing game across Central Asia , they ...
... human species , when in the late Ice Age , a tiny group of our ancestors walked out of Africa in search of better food and security . In fifty thousand years of wandering along ocean coasts and chasing game across Central Asia , they ...
الصفحة xv
... human communities. The result of their proselytizing zeal is the domination of the world by three major religions. Buddhist pilgrims and preachers took their faith to distant cor- ners, in the process transforming the world's art ...
... human communities. The result of their proselytizing zeal is the domination of the world by three major religions. Buddhist pilgrims and preachers took their faith to distant cor- ners, in the process transforming the world's art ...
الصفحة 2
... human settlement, other people who spoke a different language and fashioned new and interesting tools. Trading between the sepa- rated villages took off. A preacher, too, ventured out from another of the many villages that now dotted ...
... human settlement, other people who spoke a different language and fashioned new and interesting tools. Trading between the sepa- rated villages took off. A preacher, too, ventured out from another of the many villages that now dotted ...
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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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