The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container (shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy.[1][2] The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book".[3]
| Author | Marc Levinson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 0-691-12324-1 |
The book inspired the name for the project "The Box" run by BBC News from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were tracking a container for a period of one year.[4]
The Box won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category.[5] It also won the 2007 Anderson Medal from the Society for Nautical Research.[6] The Box was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2006).[7]
Editions
edit- Levinson, Marc (2006). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12324-1.
- Levinson, Marc (2016). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-17081-7.
The 2nd edition has an extra chapter.
Chapters
edit- The World the Box Made
- Gridlock on the Docks
- The Trucker
- The System
- The Battle for New York's Post
- Union Disunion
- Setting the Standard
- Takeoff
- Vietnam
- Ports in a Storm
- Boom and Bust
- The Bigness Complex
- The Shipper's Revenge
- Just in Time – Barbie is an example
- Adding Value
See also
edit- Dry port – aka "Inland Port"
- Intermodal container
Bibliography
edit- Outside the Box – How Globalization Changed From Moving Stuff To Spreading Ideas. Front cover of book states author is Marc Levinson;[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Davies, Howard (2006-04-01). "Thinking outside the box". Times Online.[dead link]
- ^ Krug, Nora (2008-04-13). "Globalization 1.0". Washington Post.
- ^ Nocera, Joe (2006-05-13). "A Revolution That Came In a Box". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-24.
- ^ Hillman, Jeremy (2008-09-08). "The Box takes off on global journey". BBC News.
- ^ "Announcing 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results". Independent Publisher Book Awards. 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
- ^ "Awards". Society for Nautical Research.
- ^ "Award shortlist announced 2006". Financial Times. 18 September 2006. Retrieved 30 May 2012.