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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الصفحة xi
... continents thousands of miles apart ? How did Islam , born in the deserts of Arabia , win over a billion converts in the world ? How did Europeans learn to play the violin with a bowstring— made of Mongolian horsehair ? Or , for that ...
... continents thousands of miles apart ? How did Islam , born in the deserts of Arabia , win over a billion converts in the world ? How did Europeans learn to play the violin with a bowstring— made of Mongolian horsehair ? Or , for that ...
الصفحة xiii
... continents , bringing unprecedented opportunity to the prepared and challenge to the unready . If one accepts the essential continuity of the forces that have created the in- creasingly integrated world , one cannot but see ...
... continents , bringing unprecedented opportunity to the prepared and challenge to the unready . If one accepts the essential continuity of the forces that have created the in- creasingly integrated world , one cannot but see ...
الصفحة xiv
... continents . Along the way , they changed their pig- mentation and facial features , and developed different languages and cultures as well . The period of divergence came to a close with the end of the Ice Age . Traders , preachers ...
... continents . Along the way , they changed their pig- mentation and facial features , and developed different languages and cultures as well . The period of divergence came to a close with the end of the Ice Age . Traders , preachers ...
الصفحة 3
... continent to a metaphorical village is not so far-fetched. Africa may be a vast land that is home to nearly a billion people today, but our human ancestors who walked out of Africa so long ago may have numbered just two thousand, the ...
... continent to a metaphorical village is not so far-fetched. Africa may be a vast land that is home to nearly a billion people today, but our human ancestors who walked out of Africa so long ago may have numbered just two thousand, the ...
الصفحة 4
... continent in search of a better life. The sight that often greets the fully clothed African immigrants wading ashore beaches of the Canary Islands compounds the irony: the “naturist” European bathers soak- ing in the sun are in the same ...
... continent in search of a better life. The sight that often greets the fully clothed African immigrants wading ashore beaches of the Canary Islands compounds the irony: the “naturist” European bathers soak- ing in the sun are in the same ...
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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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