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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.
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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.
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387
.544
L665b
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McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.
Containerization -- History.
Freight and freightage -- History.
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ISBN:
9780691123240
0691123241
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xi, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
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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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387.544 L665b
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