Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #950263 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.34" h x 6.48" w x 9.38" l, 1.58 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Review
"Given the avalanche of books on globalization it is reasonable to assume that for now the subject has been exhausted. This assumption crumbles after one reads Nayan Chanda''s masterful analysis and discovers that this gifted writer has added a new and important layer to our understanding of why and how we are all Bound Together.' A must read."-Moiss Naim, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy . -- Moiss Naim

The Economist
'Mr. Chanda makes a solid and attractive case for globalisation and its potential as a force for good.'

About the Author
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.