ISBN:
9780300134902
,
0300134908
,
9780300131512
,
0300131518
,
1281734896
,
9781281734891
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 391 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chanda, Nayan Bound together
DDC:
303.48209
Keywords:
Commerce History
;
Intercultural communication History
;
Culture diffusion History
;
Globalization History
;
Social evolution
;
Commerce History
;
Intercultural communication History
;
Culture diffusion History
;
Globalization History
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
;
Commerce
;
Culture diffusion
;
Globalization
;
Intercultural communication
;
Social evolution
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books Electronic books
;
History
Abstract:
Since humans migrated from Africa and progressively 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-372) and index. - Description based on print version record
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