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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... Romans to the British Empire—promoted legal and linguistic unity and the exchange of plant and animal species across the globe. Chapter7, “Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses,” explores the dark underbelly of expanding global connections ...
... Romans to the British Empire—promoted legal and linguistic unity and the exchange of plant and animal species across the globe. Chapter7, “Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses,” explores the dark underbelly of expanding global connections ...
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... Roman law and its extension to diverse other populations of the empire.84 The state's growing involvement in trade that would later become the norm was visible in one law: “If the merchant give, to an agent corn, wool, oil, or any sort ...
... Roman law and its extension to diverse other populations of the empire.84 The state's growing involvement in trade that would later become the norm was visible in one law: “If the merchant give, to an agent corn, wool, oil, or any sort ...
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... ce, foreign traders were present in small oasis towns fringing the Taklimakan, carrying silk and lacquerware to the Roman Empire and woolen and linen textiles, glass, coral, amber, and pearl to China. From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce 41.
... ce, foreign traders were present in small oasis towns fringing the Taklimakan, carrying silk and lacquerware to the Roman Empire and woolen and linen textiles, glass, coral, amber, and pearl to China. From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce 41.
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... Roman Empire reached the Red Sea, and the door was fully opened to trade with India, the long-coveted source of exotic luxuries. We do not know the names of any traders, but a remarkable navigation and trading manual written in Greek by ...
... Roman Empire reached the Red Sea, and the door was fully opened to trade with India, the long-coveted source of exotic luxuries. We do not know the names of any traders, but a remarkable navigation and trading manual written in Greek by ...
الصفحة 45
... Roman elites accumulated enough wealth to indulge their taste for the exotic, and they were ready to invest in overseas trade and finance risky, long sea voyages. Luxuries from faraway places defined the power of the Roman Empire, and ...
... Roman elites accumulated enough wealth to indulge their taste for the exotic, and they were ready to invest in overseas trade and finance risky, long sea voyages. Luxuries from faraway places defined the power of the Roman Empire, and ...
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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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