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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... percent of East Asian chromosomes. But before the Eurasian group showed up in China, the descendants of the original Australian express who got off the train, so to speak, in island Southeast Asia were making their moves. For the story ...
... percent of East Asian chromosomes. But before the Eurasian group showed up in China, the descendants of the original Australian express who got off the train, so to speak, in island Southeast Asia were making their moves. For the story ...
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... percent of Indians carry the Y chromosome ofa man who has been dubbed the Native American Adam.42 He lived roughly 22,500 years ago and sprang from the lineage that had lived in Siberia and Central Asia's Altai Mountain range area. Only ...
... percent of Indians carry the Y chromosome ofa man who has been dubbed the Native American Adam.42 He lived roughly 22,500 years ago and sprang from the lineage that had lived in Siberia and Central Asia's Altai Mountain range area. Only ...
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... percent alike, that minute difference in our DNA that accounts for the visible difference of skin color throws a spoke in the wheel of the globalization wrought by the human species. However insignificant those differences may be in a ...
... percent alike, that minute difference in our DNA that accounts for the visible difference of skin color throws a spoke in the wheel of the globalization wrought by the human species. However insignificant those differences may be in a ...
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... percent lighter than men's.51 The same process accounts for the lighter skin of the San people who moved to South Africa—a latitude where UV rays are of the same level as those of the Mediterranean. How does one explain the relatively ...
... percent lighter than men's.51 The same process accounts for the lighter skin of the San people who moved to South Africa—a latitude where UV rays are of the same level as those of the Mediterranean. How does one explain the relatively ...
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... percent profit on tin and 200 percent on textiles. The successful traders made enough money to build large houses and possess expensive lapis lazuli imported from Afghanistan. The trader Pusu-ken's wife, Lamassi, and her daughters ...
... percent profit on tin and 200 percent on textiles. The successful traders made enough money to build large houses and possess expensive lapis lazuli imported from Afghanistan. The trader Pusu-ken's wife, Lamassi, and her daughters ...
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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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