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| 100 | _aLevinson, Marc | ||
| 245 | 0 | _aBox: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger | |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aPrinceton _bPrinceton University Press _c2006 |
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_axi, 376 p. _c24 cm |
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| 500 | _aSuggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra | ||
| 505 | _aPt 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). | ||
| 520 | _aIn 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 | ||
| 650 | _a--BOOK JACKET | ||
| 650 | _aContainerization --History | ||
| 650 | _aMcLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001 | ||
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