Book Notes · History & geography
The Box (Marc Levinson)
How a trucking entrepreneur and a steel box made shipping almost free and remade the world economy: Malcom McLean's 1956 voyage, the cost collapse, standards wars, labor battles, Vietnam, winner and loser ports, and globalized supply chains.
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Prereqs: Rivers, ports & trade (Geography); Supply chains. Next: How Asia Works. Book: Marc Levinson, *The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger* (2006; 2nd ed. 2016).Next: 1. Before the box