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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... hundred who had left the drought-stricken village three thousand generations ago. The masses now traveled, migrated in search of jobs, and bought and sold goods from far and wide. Nobody remembered the name of the village of their ...
... hundred who had left the drought-stricken village three thousand generations ago. The masses now traveled, migrated in search of jobs, and bought and sold goods from far and wide. Nobody remembered the name of the village of their ...
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... hundred miles of water. Their immediate destination: the Canary Islands, stepping-stone to the European Union. It is not just thatAfricans are again leaving the continent in search of a better life. The sight that often greets the fully ...
... hundred miles of water. Their immediate destination: the Canary Islands, stepping-stone to the European Union. It is not just thatAfricans are again leaving the continent in search of a better life. The sight that often greets the fully ...
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... hundred-thousand-year-old Homo sapienswere found in Israel, but that species met a biological dead-end, blocked perhaps by the more robust Neanderthals who then inhabited the area. Amazingly, so far the only other remains of modern man ...
... hundred-thousand-year-old Homo sapienswere found in Israel, but that species met a biological dead-end, blocked perhaps by the more robust Neanderthals who then inhabited the area. Amazingly, so far the only other remains of modern man ...
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... hundred thousand years ago.9 Obviously, she was not the only woman alive at that time: she was just the luckiest because her progenies survived to populate the world, while the lines of descendants of other women became extinct.10 Or ...
... hundred thousand years ago.9 Obviously, she was not the only woman alive at that time: she was just the luckiest because her progenies survived to populate the world, while the lines of descendants of other women became extinct.10 Or ...
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... hundred generations. Some have called this journey an “express train” to Australia. Of course, the ancestors did not know they were headed to Australia: they were just following food. But the eastward movement of generations of people ...
... hundred generations. Some have called this journey an “express train” to Australia. Of course, the ancestors did not know they were headed to Australia: they were just following food. But the eastward movement of generations of people ...
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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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