The Box

Marc Levinson

Princeton University Press, 2016

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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 dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the swe

ISBN-13
9780691170817
ISBN-10
0691170819
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-04-05
Pages
540
Dimensions
203x135x36
Weight
516