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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... important layer to our understanding of why and how we are all 'Bound Together.' A must read.” —Moisés Naim, editor in chief, Foreign Policy “Bound Togetheris destined to be a classic book for the twenty-first century. Author Nayan ...
... important layer to our understanding of why and how we are all 'Bound Together.' A must read.” —Moisés Naim, editor in chief, Foreign Policy “Bound Togetheris destined to be a classic book for the twenty-first century. Author Nayan ...
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... important questions. What precisely is globalization, and why is it accused of damaging the rain forest? It seems to have appeared out of nowhere, and now it is everywhere. Almost every problem—even extraordinary developments—has been ...
... important questions. What precisely is globalization, and why is it accused of damaging the rain forest? It seems to have appeared out of nowhere, and now it is everywhere. Almost every problem—even extraordinary developments—has been ...
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... important to understand who the globalizers are, what they are doing and why, and how long they have been at it. Since the word globalization appeared in the dictionary, its meaning has undergone a massive transformation. Just two of ...
... important to understand who the globalizers are, what they are doing and why, and how long they have been at it. Since the word globalization appeared in the dictionary, its meaning has undergone a massive transformation. Just two of ...
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... with the apparent transition from archaic to anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Africa. More important, the artifacts from the Abdur Reef limestone suggest that a coastal existence was becoming common 10 The African Beginning.
... with the apparent transition from archaic to anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Africa. More important, the artifacts from the Abdur Reef limestone suggest that a coastal existence was becoming common 10 The African Beginning.
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... important element in creating the category called “race.” Although genetically all humans are 99.9 percent alike, that minute difference in our DNA that accounts for the visible difference of skin color throws a spoke in the wheel of ...
... important element in creating the category called “race.” Although genetically all humans are 99.9 percent alike, that minute difference in our DNA that accounts for the visible difference of skin color throws a spoke in the wheel of ...
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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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