Bound together : how traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization / Nayan Chanda.
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 s...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.