Malcom McLean spurred containerized shipping in the 1950s. The impact on people, ports, cities and, of course, trade, was massive. Historian Marc Levinson joins to tell the story from his book The Box (Princeton University Press).
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- Marc Levinson. 2016. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press (2nd edition).
