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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... became part of one's identity and honor was summed up in the ultimatum that marked the beginning of catastrophic war in the Indian epic the Mahabharata of about 500 bce: “We'll not cede land worth the point of a needle without war ...
... became part of one's identity and honor was summed up in the ultimatum that marked the beginning of catastrophic war in the Indian epic the Mahabharata of about 500 bce: “We'll not cede land worth the point of a needle without war ...
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... became a well-trod- den path for more migration and trade. As we will see, these adventuring pio- neers and migrants—grouped as adventurers in this book—emerged as a key actor of globalization. Short-distance migration that might have ...
... became a well-trod- den path for more migration and trade. As we will see, these adventuring pio- neers and migrants—grouped as adventurers in this book—emerged as a key actor of globalization. Short-distance migration that might have ...
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... became attainable . Subsistence and economic sur- vival in the dry grasslands , an uncertain and risky proposition for pedestrian hunters , became predictable and productive . Sedentary horticultural villagers whose river val- ley ...
... became attainable . Subsistence and economic sur- vival in the dry grasslands , an uncertain and risky proposition for pedestrian hunters , became predictable and productive . Sedentary horticultural villagers whose river val- ley ...
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... became an im- portant way of connecting with other communities and developing alliances among chiefs.75 In search of frankincense, myrrh, ebony, and other exotic products, Egyptian pharaohs began to send trading expeditions to Punt ...
... became an im- portant way of connecting with other communities and developing alliances among chiefs.75 In search of frankincense, myrrh, ebony, and other exotic products, Egyptian pharaohs began to send trading expeditions to Punt ...
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... became an instituted economic activity driven by a search for booty and tribute in the form of corvée labor and military service.82 This approach to expanding a territorial and population base would be pur- sued by ambitious rulers ...
... became an instituted economic activity driven by a search for booty and tribute in the form of corvée labor and military service.82 This approach to expanding a territorial and population base would be pur- sued by ambitious rulers ...
المحتوى
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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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