Cover art for The Box
Published
Princeton University Press, February 2016
ISBN
9780691170817
Format
Softcover, 544 pages
Dimensions
20.3cm × 12.7cm

The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author 2nd edition by

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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 swe

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