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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... ships and Internet shopping—has continually speeded up. Indian handloom weavers, who once supplied textiles to the world, literally perished because of the Industrial Revolution. Their place in the global economic order has been taken ...
... ships and Internet shopping—has continually speeded up. Indian handloom weavers, who once supplied textiles to the world, literally perished because of the Industrial Revolution. Their place in the global economic order has been taken ...
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... ships that carried huge amounts of goods from one place in Duniya to another. The population had grown to billions from the original few hundred who had left the drought-stricken village three thousand generations ago. The masses now ...
... ships that carried huge amounts of goods from one place in Duniya to another. The population had grown to billions from the original few hundred who had left the drought-stricken village three thousand generations ago. The masses now ...
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... ships with sails and by donkey caravans, were already a huge advance in trading. As economies developed, the role of merchants and long-distance trade widened. Like drops of ink on wet paper, the trade-linked areas from Mesopotamia and ...
... ships with sails and by donkey caravans, were already a huge advance in trading. As economies developed, the role of merchants and long-distance trade widened. Like drops of ink on wet paper, the trade-linked areas from Mesopotamia and ...
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... ships. Another new actor pushing globalization today is the consumer, whose demand for cheaper and better goods and services is fueling the fire of global commerce. The likes of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have enlarged ...
... ships. Another new actor pushing globalization today is the consumer, whose demand for cheaper and better goods and services is fueling the fire of global commerce. The likes of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have enlarged ...
الصفحة 37
... of trade have progressed from donkey and camel to sail and steamboats, from container ships and airplanes to fiberoptic cables. The modes of payment have evolved from barter, cowries, From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce 37.
... of trade have progressed from donkey and camel to sail and steamboats, from container ships and airplanes to fiberoptic cables. The modes of payment have evolved from barter, cowries, From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce 37.
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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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