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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... island has been a key factor in connecting a geographically separated world. From the Carthaginian commander Hanno, who sailed down Africa's west coast in 500 bceto the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, and from Marco ...
... island has been a key factor in connecting a geographically separated world. From the Carthaginian commander Hanno, who sailed down Africa's west coast in 500 bceto the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, and from Marco ...
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... 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 clothed African immigrants wading ashore beaches of 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 clothed African immigrants wading ashore beaches of the Canary ...
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... Islands, where the indigenous people have long been isolated, the researchers found mtDNA types that matched those of the known founder African group dating back sixty-five thousand years. Amazingly, the aboriginal population of the ...
... Islands, where the indigenous people have long been isolated, the researchers found mtDNA types that matched those of the known founder African group dating back sixty-five thousand years. Amazingly, the aboriginal population of the ...
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... island Southeast Asia were making their moves. For the story about how the Southeast Asian and other genetic groups came to coalesce in China, we turn to geneticist Li Jin and his students. They wanted to resolve once and for all the ...
... island Southeast Asia were making their moves. For the story about how the Southeast Asian and other genetic groups came to coalesce in China, we turn to geneticist Li Jin and his students. They wanted to resolve once and for all the ...
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... Islands, including Polynesia and Micronesia, and the other moved toward Taiwan.37These descendants of the same Grandpa chromosome would live in the splendid isolation of Australia and the Pacific for thousands of years before the ...
... Islands, including Polynesia and Micronesia, and the other moved toward Taiwan.37These descendants of the same Grandpa chromosome would live in the splendid isolation of Australia and the Pacific for thousands of years before the ...
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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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