Bound Together How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization

Name: Bound Together How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
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ISBN: 9780300136234

ISBN-10: 0300136234

ISBN-13: 9780300136234

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nayan Chanda

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Since 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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.82" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction



The African Beginning



From Camel Commerce to E-Commerce



The World Inside



Preachers' World



World in Motion



The Imperial Weave



Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses



Globalization: From Buzzword to Curse



Who's Afraid of Globalization?



The Road Ahead


Chronology


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index