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
... interconnected world. Literally, of course, one cannot talk of such global connections until the first circumnavigation of the globe by Ferdinand Magellan in 1519. However, in the broad sense of expanding the known world—which the ...
... interconnected world. Literally, of course, one cannot talk of such global connections until the first circumnavigation of the globe by Ferdinand Magellan in 1519. However, in the broad sense of expanding the known world—which the ...
الصفحة xvi
... interconnected world, from its timid entry into the English vocabulary in 1961, the word globalization has grown into a buzzword. A survey of electronic databases since the 1970s shows that the use of the word grew rapidly in the 1990s ...
... interconnected world, from its timid entry into the English vocabulary in 1961, the word globalization has grown into a buzzword. A survey of electronic databases since the 1970s shows that the use of the word grew rapidly in the 1990s ...
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... interconnected and, for better or for worse, interdependent. Homo sapiens—the anatomically modern humans who emerged in Africa—is the first mammalian species that has voluntarily spread itself out to every corner of the globe and begun ...
... interconnected and, for better or for worse, interdependent. Homo sapiens—the anatomically modern humans who emerged in Africa—is the first mammalian species that has voluntarily spread itself out to every corner of the globe and begun ...
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... interconnection among humans living in each zone—in their known universes—would grow and intensify, creating mini-globalizations until the age of Columbus would break the ocean barrier. The American continent, which had disappeared from ...
... interconnection among humans living in each zone—in their known universes—would grow and intensify, creating mini-globalizations until the age of Columbus would break the ocean barrier. The American continent, which had disappeared from ...
الصفحة 25
... interconnection: migration, trade, religion, and the conquering power of state. With an assured food supply from planted crops, populations grew, setting the stage for migration of people to other areas along with their tools and seeds ...
... interconnection: migration, trade, religion, and the conquering power of state. With an assured food supply from planted crops, populations grew, setting the stage for migration of people to other areas along with their tools and seeds ...
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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