From silk to silicon: the story of globalization through ten extraordinary lives

Genghis Khan : the accidental empire builder (1162-1227)

Prince Henry : the explorer who made a science of discovery (1394-1460)

Robert Clive : the rogue who captured India for the British Empire (1725-1774)

Mayer Amschel Rothschild : the godfather of global banking (1744-1812)

Cyrus Field : the tycoon who wired the Atlantic (1819-1892)

John D. Rockefeller : the titan who built the energy industry and also launched global philanthropy (1839-1937)

Jean Monnet : the diplomat who reinvented Europe (1888-1979)

Margaret Thatcher : the iron lady who revived free markets (1925-2013)

Andrew Grove : the man behind the third industrial revolution (1936-present)

Deng Xiaoping : the pragmatist who relaunched China (1904-1997)

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