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The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson.

Author/creator Levinson, Marc, 1953- author.
Format Book and Print
EditionSecond edition.
Publication Info Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Descriptionxx, 516 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Subject(s)
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 -- Adding value.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formElectronic version: Levinson, Marc. Box. Second edition. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016 9781400880751
LCCN 2015024925
ISBN9780691170817 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN0691170819 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks TA1215 .L47 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold