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

"A lively book . . .makes a solid and attractive case for globalisation and its potential as a force for good" (Economist).

Since humans migrated from Africa and 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 i...