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

Chanda, Nayan

ISBN 10: 0300136234 / ISBN 13: 9780300136234

Edité par Yale University Press, 2008

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Synopsis :

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 endeavour 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.

À propos de l'auteur: Nayan Chanda is director of publications, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, and editor, YaleGlobal Online. He is former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, ...
Éditeur : Yale University Press
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Fair
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket