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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... an ancient time. Without looking into the past, how does one explain that almost everything— from the cells in our bodies to everyday objects in our lives—carries within itself the imprints of a long journey ? Why in Introduction x.
... an ancient time. Without looking into the past, how does one explain that almost everything— from the cells in our bodies to everyday objects in our lives—carries within itself the imprints of a long journey ? Why in Introduction x.
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... journey ? Why in that first instance did human be- ings leave Africa and become a globalized species ? Most of what we eat , drink , or use originated somewhere else than where we find these objects today . Al- most everything we ...
... journey ? Why in that first instance did human be- ings leave Africa and become a globalized species ? Most of what we eat , drink , or use originated somewhere else than where we find these objects today . Al- most everything we ...
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... journey? Why in that first instance did human beings leave Africa and become a globalized species? Most of what we eat, drink, or use originated somewhere else than where we find these objects today. Almost everything we associate with ...
... journey? Why in that first instance did human beings leave Africa and become a globalized species? Most of what we eat, drink, or use originated somewhere else than where we find these objects today. Almost everything we associate with ...
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... journeys, I have focused on a selected set of commodities and ideas as ex- amples of a broader trend. I have tried ... journey of anatomically modern humans out of Africa some fifty thousand years ago. Out of the necessity for survival ...
... journeys, I have focused on a selected set of commodities and ideas as ex- amples of a broader trend. I have tried ... journey of anatomically modern humans out of Africa some fifty thousand years ago. Out of the necessity for survival ...
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... journey out of Africa, humanity has di- verged. The physical differences among humans that form the basis of what we call “race” were forged in this period of great divergence by geography, climate, and natural selection. As we shall ...
... journey out of Africa, humanity has di- verged. The physical differences among humans that form the basis of what we call “race” were forged in this period of great divergence by geography, climate, and natural selection. As we shall ...
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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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