Box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
Levinson, Marc
Box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger - 1st ed. - Princeton Princeton University Press 2006 - xi, 376 p. 24 cm
Suggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra
Pt I Disciplinary perspectives; Gridlock on the docks; Industrial and economic revolutions (1820-1929); War and depressions (1929-1945); Post-war economics (1945-70); Contemporary economics (1970-present).
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 story of the
9780691136400
--BOOK JACKET
Containerization --History
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001
387.5442 LEV
Box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger - 1st ed. - Princeton Princeton University Press 2006 - xi, 376 p. 24 cm
Suggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra
Pt I Disciplinary perspectives; Gridlock on the docks; Industrial and economic revolutions (1820-1929); War and depressions (1929-1945); Post-war economics (1945-70); Contemporary economics (1970-present).
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 story of the
9780691136400
--BOOK JACKET
Containerization --History
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001
387.5442 LEV