Box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
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TextPublication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 376 p. 24 cmISBN: 9780691136400Subject(s): --BOOK JACKET | Containerization --History | McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001DDC classification: 387.5442 LEV | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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
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