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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... lands, the same urge for preachers to set out to convert others to their ideas of the good, and the same drive of adventurers to seek new lands and opportunities are still working to shrink the world. Many more have joined the different ...
... lands, the same urge for preachers to set out to convert others to their ideas of the good, and the same drive of adventurers to seek new lands and opportunities are still working to shrink the world. Many more have joined the different ...
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... lands. From Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, ambitious men have brought lands and populations under their control, creating a varied gene pool and diffusing cultures. Political edifices built by imperial rulers—from the Romans to ...
... lands. From Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, ambitious men have brought lands and populations under their control, creating a varied gene pool and diffusing cultures. Political edifices built by imperial rulers—from the Romans to ...
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... land, separated by mountains, deserts, and the rising ocean that submerged an earlier land bridge. They spoke a variety of tongues, wore diverse clothes, and ate different foods. Then one day a trader walked over the hill and discovered ...
... land, separated by mountains, deserts, and the rising ocean that submerged an earlier land bridge. They spoke a variety of tongues, wore diverse clothes, and ate different foods. Then one day a trader walked over the hill and discovered ...
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... land that is home to nearly a billion people today, but our human ancestors who walked out of Africa so long ago may have numbered just two thousand, the size ofa hamlet. One estimate puts the number of migrants out ofAfrica at no more ...
... land that is home to nearly a billion people today, but our human ancestors who walked out of Africa so long ago may have numbered just two thousand, the size ofa hamlet. One estimate puts the number of migrants out ofAfrica at no more ...
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... land—and Somalia are taking to the ocean in the hope of reaching Yemen and beyond. Globalization continues. In this chapter we will see how the urge to find a safer, better life turned some of our human ancestors into adventurers and ...
... land—and Somalia are taking to the ocean in the hope of reaching Yemen and beyond. Globalization continues. In this chapter we will see how the urge to find a safer, better life turned some of our human ancestors into adventurers and ...
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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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