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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... took their faith to distant cor- ners, in the process transforming the world's art, culture, and society. Christian missionaries and Islamic preachers, often backed by the sword, have converted millions in foreign lands. In the modern ...
... took their faith to distant cor- ners, in the process transforming the world's art, culture, and society. Christian missionaries and Islamic preachers, often backed by the sword, have converted millions in foreign lands. In the modern ...
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... took off. A preacher, too, ventured out from another of the many villages that now dotted Duniya, hoping to teach others about his god. In yet another village an ambitious chief assembled a small army to extend his control over other ...
... took off. A preacher, too, ventured out from another of the many villages that now dotted Duniya, hoping to teach others about his god. In yet another village an ambitious chief assembled a small army to extend his control over other ...
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... took the momentous step of crossing the Red Sea into the southern Arabian coast , the whole world was open . Following game herds up into the Middle East or following the shellfish beds around the Ara- bian Peninsula and on into India ...
... took the momentous step of crossing the Red Sea into the southern Arabian coast , the whole world was open . Following game herds up into the Middle East or following the shellfish beds around the Ara- bian Peninsula and on into India ...
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... took to the pastoral life, emerging as the ambulatory connector between settled communities. With surplus agriculture arose towns, new crafts, and the production of com- modities. Informal exchanges of earlier times developed into trade ...
... took to the pastoral life, emerging as the ambulatory connector between settled communities. With surplus agriculture arose towns, new crafts, and the production of com- modities. Informal exchanges of earlier times developed into trade ...
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... took strings of beads, axes, daggers, bracelets, and wine and beer. The expeditions also brought back skins of giraffe and leopard and perhaps the first African slaves, pygmies who were made to dance for royalty. That first recorded ...
... took strings of beads, axes, daggers, bracelets, and wine and beer. The expeditions also brought back skins of giraffe and leopard and perhaps the first African slaves, pygmies who were made to dance for royalty. That first recorded ...
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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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