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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... percent customs duty on all im- ports . The complaint nevertheless points to the significance of Asian trade to the Roman economy . COOL , FRAGRANT WINE FROM ITALY Indeed , hoards of Roman imperial coins discovered in south India , and ...
... percent customs duty on all im- ports . The complaint nevertheless points to the significance of Asian trade to the Roman economy . COOL , FRAGRANT WINE FROM ITALY Indeed , hoards of Roman imperial coins discovered in south India , and ...
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... percent of all ships that set out from Portugal bound for India were lost at sea. In their first voyages to Asia, da Gama and Cabral lost half their crew and more than half of their ships. But the lure of high profit kept the ships ...
... percent of all ships that set out from Portugal bound for India were lost at sea. In their first voyages to Asia, da Gama and Cabral lost half their crew and more than half of their ships. But the lure of high profit kept the ships ...
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... percent between 1840 and 1910. Worldwide real freight rates fell by 1.5 percent per annum between 1840 and 1910.64 The falling costs were mirrored in the speed of sea routes world- wide.65The completion of the Suez Canal in 1869 removed ...
... percent between 1840 and 1910. Worldwide real freight rates fell by 1.5 percent per annum between 1840 and 1910.64 The falling costs were mirrored in the speed of sea routes world- wide.65The completion of the Suez Canal in 1869 removed ...
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... percent, to 15.8 cents a ton. This ushered in a new era in shipping that has con- tinually lowered freight costs. The biggest of the container ships, nicknamed “monster ships,” carry containers equivalent to twenty miles of trucks,68 ...
... percent, to 15.8 cents a ton. This ushered in a new era in shipping that has con- tinually lowered freight costs. The biggest of the container ships, nicknamed “monster ships,” carry containers equivalent to twenty miles of trucks,68 ...
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... percent or more.93 India's telecom giant VSNL ( Videsh Sanchar Nigam , Ltd. ) acquired the old AT & T undersea fiber - optic cable network from bankrupt Tyco for just $ 130 million . It had cost the original owners $ 3 billion to ...
... percent or more.93 India's telecom giant VSNL ( Videsh Sanchar Nigam , Ltd. ) acquired the old AT & T undersea fiber - optic cable network from bankrupt Tyco for just $ 130 million . It had cost the original owners $ 3 billion to ...
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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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