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

Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (review) Book Reviews Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. By nayan chanda. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. 400 pp. $27.50 (cloth). Nayan Chanda embraces globalization not as a recent phenomenon, but as the expression of one of humanity's deepest and oldest impulses. He asks: "Without looking into the past, how does one explain that almost everything--from the cells in our bodies to everyday objects in our lives--carries within itself the imprints of a long journey" (p. x)? His lively and energetic account of this long journey is structured around the activities of ever restless and active migrants, traders, and missionaries. Chanda's view of history follows the path of Fernand Braudel's "longue durée perspective" (p. 172), so Chanda's first globalization episode is the beginning of human migration from the African continent. Globalization becomes a succession of episodes: migration, emigration, exploration, immigration, trade routes, and invasion. His first chapter, "The African Beginning," is not only a quick review of the DNA evidence that supports the "out of Africa" thesis (Chinese caveats mentioned [p. 7]), but also lays the groundwork of his recurring theme that the human motivation for the episodes of globalization is the search http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

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

Bacon, Ewa K.
Journal of World History , Volume 20 (2) – Jun 20, 2009
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Book Reviews Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. By nayan chanda. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. 400 pp. $27.50 (cloth). Nayan Chanda embraces globalization not as a recent phenomenon, but as the expression of one of humanity's deepest and oldest impulses. He asks: "Without looking into the past, how does one explain that almost everything--from the cells in our bodies to everyday objects in our lives--carries within itself the imprints of a long journey" (p. x)? His lively and energetic account of this long journey is structured around the activities of ever restless and active migrants, traders, and missionaries. Chanda's view of history follows the path of Fernand Braudel's "longue durée perspective" (p. 172), so Chanda's first globalization episode is the beginning of human migration from the African continent. Globalization becomes a succession of episodes: migration, emigration, exploration, immigration, trade routes, and invasion. His first chapter, "The African Beginning," is not only a quick review of the DNA evidence that supports the "out of Africa" thesis (Chinese caveats mentioned [p. 7]), but also lays the groundwork of his recurring theme that the human motivation for the episodes of globalization is the search

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Published: Jun 20, 2009

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