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The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson.
Fine Arts Library TA1215 .L47 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levinson, Marc, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Containerization--History.
- Containerization.
- McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.
- McLean, Malcolm Purcell.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 516 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- The world the box made
- Gridlock on the docks
- The trucker
- The system
- The battle for New York's port
- Union disunion
- Setting the standard
- Takeoff
- Vietnam
- Ports in a storm
- Boom and bust
- The bigness complex
- The shippers' revenge
- Just in time
- Adding value.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Levinson, Marc. Box.
- ISBN:
- 9780691170817
- 0691170819
- OCLC:
- 912872730
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