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Description: Fair. Some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not... Fair. Some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include cdrom or access codes, customer service is our top priority!

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Description: 8vo, hardcover. Vg+ condition in vg+ dj. Very neatly repaired... 8vo, hardcover. Vg+ condition in vg+ dj. Very neatly repaired tear to edge of front endpaper, barely noticeable; interior pristine, unread; dj has small tear to edge of front panel. xi, 376 p.

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Description: Princeton. 2006. Princeton University Press. 1st American... Princeton. 2006. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. 390 pages. hardcover. 0691123241. 2 line illus. 7 tables. Winner of the 2007 Bronze Independent Publisher Book Award, Finance/Investment/Economics category. Winner of the 2007 Anderson Medal, Society for Nautical Research. Honorable Mention, 2006 John Lyman Book Award, Science and Technol. keywords: Economics Container Box History. inventory # 36211. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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 sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. Marc Levinson is an economist in New York and author of three previous books. He was formerly finance and economics editor of the Economist, a writer at Newsweek, and editorial director of the Journal of Commerce.

Description: New. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller... New. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.

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Description: Good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 376 p. Good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 376 p.

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