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
... modern humans out of Africa some fifty thousand years ago . Out of the necessity for survival , these people were the first adven- turers who over generations moved on , occupying the inhabitable areas of the earth , and taking ...
... modern humans out of Africa some fifty thousand years ago . Out of the necessity for survival , these people were the first adven- turers who over generations moved on , occupying the inhabitable areas of the earth , and taking ...
الصفحة xv
... modern period, a new kind of secular mission- ary has joined to link the world even more closely—in the name of the envi- ronment and various causes from feeding the hungry to stopping the violation of human rights. Chapter 5, “World in ...
... modern period, a new kind of secular mission- ary has joined to link the world even more closely—in the name of the envi- ronment and various causes from feeding the hungry to stopping the violation of human rights. Chapter 5, “World in ...
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... 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 what we have come to call globalization. In the sixty thousand years since that early ...
... 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 what we have come to call globalization. In the sixty thousand years since that early ...
الصفحة 5
... modern humans, had begun to travel and colonize Asia and the Old World about two million years ago. The dedicated work of paleoanthro- pologists like Louis and Mary Leakey in the 1950s and a slew of researchers in the following thirty ...
... modern humans, had begun to travel and colonize Asia and the Old World about two million years ago. The dedicated work of paleoanthro- pologists like Louis and Mary Leakey in the 1950s and a slew of researchers in the following thirty ...
الصفحة 7
... modern human refused to accept a re- cent or unique origin of Homo sapiens.Its proponents argued that the abundant Homo erectus fossils found in China and other regions in East Asia (such as Peking Man and Java Man) demonstrate a ...
... modern human refused to accept a re- cent or unique origin of Homo sapiens.Its proponents argued that the abundant Homo erectus fossils found in China and other regions in East Asia (such as Peking Man and Java Man) demonstrate a ...
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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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