Bound Together - How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers And Warriors Shaped Globalization

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 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.

Language English
ISBN-10 0300136234
ISBN-13 9780300136234
No of pages 391
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Book Publisher Yale University Press
Published Date 03 Jun 2008

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