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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... turned war prisoners and captured humans from other lands into slaves. The European dis- covery of the New World took slavery to a new height in the process, creating multiracial societies in many parts of the Americas. From the plague ...
... turned war prisoners and captured humans from other lands into slaves. The European dis- covery of the New World took slavery to a new height in the process, creating multiracial societies in many parts of the Americas. From the plague ...
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... preachers, and warriors—has grown thicker and faster with each passing year, integrating the world more tightly than ever. The beginning of the twenty-first century marks an ironic turning of the full circle for the The African Beginning 3.
... preachers, and warriors—has grown thicker and faster with each passing year, integrating the world more tightly than ever. The beginning of the twenty-first century marks an ironic turning of the full circle for the The African Beginning 3.
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... turning of the full circle for the “out of Africa” adventurers. Thou- sands of destitute and jobless Africans are again ... turned some of our human ancestors into adventurers and set them on a journey that marked the first step in the ...
... turning of the full circle for the “out of Africa” adventurers. Thou- sands of destitute and jobless Africans are again ... turned some of our human ancestors into adventurers and set them on a journey that marked the first step in the ...
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... turned out to be the holding area and later launch- ing pad for migration to Japan. Sometime between twenty thousand and twelve thousand years ago, when a low sea level linked Japan to the Asian main- land, hunter-gatherers from Central ...
... turned out to be the holding area and later launch- ing pad for migration to Japan. Sometime between twenty thousand and twelve thousand years ago, when a low sea level linked Japan to the Asian main- land, hunter-gatherers from Central ...
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... turned into an immense conveyer belt for the transmission of people , goods , and ideas . THE TRADING CONNECTION Agrarian communities also gave birth to the second actor of globalization : the trader . Foraging communities had already ...
... turned into an immense conveyer belt for the transmission of people , goods , and ideas . THE TRADING CONNECTION Agrarian communities also gave birth to the second actor of globalization : the trader . Foraging communities had already ...
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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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