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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 insightful and 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 centuries 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.
Book Reviews
˜A graceful recounting of modern globalization with a panoramic perspective . . . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got where we are today™”Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, author of Globalization and Its Discontents and Making Globalization Work
Bound Together is a graceful recounting of modern globalization with a panoramic perspective. Studded with meaningful and entertaining anecdotes, it is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got where we are today.”Joseph E. Stiglitz
A masterful, long-range history. The very long time-span . . . and the keen spatial sense come from his training in the great, and interdisciplinary, French tradition of historical research”Ramachandra Guha
This thrilling history of globalisation describes how human beings have been moving and connecting ever since we evolved from the apes”Gurcharan Das
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ISBN-9780143415541
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Pages : 412
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