Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
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Globalization's roots through diverse historical agents.
If you find yourself curious about the forces that have stitched the fabric of our global society, "Bound Together" would be a treasure. Nayan Chanda takes you on an enlightening journey through time, illustrating how the ambitions and interactions of traders, preachers, warriors, and adventurers have forged the interconnected world we navigate today. It's a rich historical tapestry that provides context to the buzzword 'globalization,' adding depth to your understanding of our past and its impact on the future.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
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ISBN: 9780300112016
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date of Publication: 2007-05-28
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.83
(rated by 191 readers)
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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.
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Globalization's roots through diverse historical agents.
If you find yourself curious about the forces that have stitched the fabric of our global society, "Bound Together" would be a treasure. Nayan Chanda takes you on an enlightening journey through time, illustrating how the ambitions and interactions of traders, preachers, warriors, and adventurers have forged the interconnected world we navigate today. It's a rich historical tapestry that provides context to the buzzword 'globalization,' adding depth to your understanding of our past and its impact on the future.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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