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Levinson, Marc.
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McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.
Containerization -- History.
Freight and freightage -- History.
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Levinson, Marc.
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.
Containerization -- History.
Freight and freightage -- History.
MARC Display
The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson.
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Levinson, Marc.
Princeton University Press, c2006.
Call #:
387.544 L665b
Subjects
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.
Containerization
--
History
.
Freight
and
freightage
--
History
.
URL856
Table of contents
ISBN:
9780691123240
0691123241
Description:
xi, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-363) and index.
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.
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