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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... sailed down Africa's west coast in 500 bceto the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, and from Marco Polo to Ferdinand Magellan, countless adventurers have widened the horizon and helped to create the integrated world of ...
... sailed down Africa's west coast in 500 bceto the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, and from Marco Polo to Ferdinand Magellan, countless adventurers have widened the horizon and helped to create the integrated world of ...
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... sailed to the southern Japanese islands.38 The farmer immigrants introduced wet rice culture, which spread throughout Japan and emerged as a marker of Japanese identity. In the twentieth centuryJapan would resist opening its rice market ...
... sailed to the southern Japanese islands.38 The farmer immigrants introduced wet rice culture, which spread throughout Japan and emerged as a marker of Japanese identity. In the twentieth centuryJapan would resist opening its rice market ...
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... sailed to their shores. Their long isolation from the gene flow in the Old World, as we will see, deprived them of immunity to many common diseases and brought calamity after their first en- counter with the Europeans. Yet curiously ...
... sailed to their shores. Their long isolation from the gene flow in the Old World, as we will see, deprived them of immunity to many common diseases and brought calamity after their first en- counter with the Europeans. Yet curiously ...
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... sailed on the Euphrates and the Nile, and the cloth sail made its appearance by the fourth millennium bce. In the fourth and third millennia, the Mesopotamian civilization emerged in the lower Tigris and Euphrates River Valley based on ...
... sailed on the Euphrates and the Nile, and the cloth sail made its appearance by the fourth millennium bce. In the fourth and third millennia, the Mesopotamian civilization emerged in the lower Tigris and Euphrates River Valley based on ...
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... sailed from the Gulf and the Red Sea for a year's round trip to China. As a ninth-century account of Baghdad put it, there was a continuous flow of merchandise of East and West, “from India, Sind, China, Tibet, the lands of the Turks ...
... sailed from the Gulf and the Red Sea for a year's round trip to China. As a ninth-century account of Baghdad put it, there was a continuous flow of merchandise of East and West, “from India, Sind, China, Tibet, the lands of the Turks ...
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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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