TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levinson, Marc
TI  - Box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
SN  - 9780691136400
U1  - 387.5​442 LEV 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - --BOOK JACKET
KW  - Containerization --History
KW  - McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001
N1  - 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)
N2  - 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
ER  -