Screen LibraryThe box：how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 376 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0691123241 (hardcover) 9780691123240 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | F511 |
| CLC: |
F511.4-09 U169-09 |
| Call Number: | U169-09/L665 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-363) and index. 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. |