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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... origins with the first humans out of Africa to its most recent appearance in financial markets, is comprehensive, informed, and judicious. Refreshingly personal and humorous, it is probably the best single-volume work on world/global ...
... origins with the first humans out of Africa to its most recent appearance in financial markets, is comprehensive, informed, and judicious. Refreshingly personal and humorous, it is probably the best single-volume work on world/global ...
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... origins of everything that surrounds us? My search for the answers to many such questions altered my understanding ... origin and transformation of goods and ideas as they travel the world from where they started, looking at the global ...
... origins of everything that surrounds us? My search for the answers to many such questions altered my understanding ... origin and transformation of goods and ideas as they travel the world from where they started, looking at the global ...
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... origins or how their ancestors had lived. But every day they knew more about the many villages and towns that now dotted Duniya. They could taste different foods, listen to music they had not heard before, and, thanks to a magical box ...
... origins or how their ancestors had lived. But every day they knew more about the many villages and towns that now dotted Duniya. They could taste different foods, listen to music they had not heard before, and, thanks to a magical box ...
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... origins, or did they evolve as a single species in Africa? The first intriguing evidence that those fossil finds in Africa were, not just the earliest humans, but our direct ancestors, came to light, not in some ancient fossils, but in ...
... origins, or did they evolve as a single species in Africa? The first intriguing evidence that those fossil finds in Africa were, not just the earliest humans, but our direct ancestors, came to light, not in some ancient fossils, but in ...
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... origin of Homo sapiens.Its proponents argued that the abundant Homo erectus fossils found in China and other regions ... origins may be linked to national pride about the antiquity of the Chinese civilization. However, as research in the ...
... origin of Homo sapiens.Its proponents argued that the abundant Homo erectus fossils found in China and other regions ... origins may be linked to national pride about the antiquity of the Chinese civilization. However, as research in 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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