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The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger Cover Image Book Book

The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger

Levinson, Marc. (Author).

Summary: In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerisation brought about. This edition has a new preface by the author dated 2015.

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  • ISBN: 9780691170817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xx, 516 pages ; 21 cm
    print
  • Edition: Second Edition.
  • Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) and index.

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Subject: McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001
Containerization -- History

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.

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Castlegar Campus Library TA 1215 L47 2016 (Text) B001684067 General Volume hold Available -
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Preface ix
Acknowledgments to the Second Edition xvii
Chapter 1 The World the Box Made
1(20)
Chapter 2 Gridlock on the Docks
21(26)
Chapter 3 The Trucker
47(25)
Chapter 4 The System
72(30)
Chapter 5 The Battle for New York's Port
102(33)
Chapter 6 Union Disunion
135(35)
Chapter 7 Setting the Standard
170(32)
Chapter 8 Takeoff
202(28)
Chapter 9 Vietnam
230(24)
Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm
254(31)
Chapter 11 Boom and Bust
285(25)
Chapter 12 The Bigness Complex
310(19)
Chapter 13 The Shippers' Revenge
329(26)
Chapter 14 Just in Time
355(20)
Chapter 15 Adding Value
375(16)
Notes 391(74)
Bibliography 465(26)
Index 491

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