The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: April 2005

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 74094

ISBN: 0374292884

Condition: Used - Good

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When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe,... View more info