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File Size: 4446 KB
Print Length: 531 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press; 2 edition (April 5, 2016)
Publication Date: April 5, 2016
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01772PS00
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...it completely bashes the topic into your skull until your are dazed and dizzy.The book has 376 numbered pages (1). You're done with the text at page 278 (2). The rest? 60 pages of FOOTNOTES (3). A 20 page bibliography. Index. Abbreviations. That's correct - over 25% of this book is supplemental material (4). Not a casual read.Comprehensive treatments are sometimes like this but the footnotes in this volume are excessive and get in the way of the storytelling (5). There are a half a dozen footnotes every few pages (6). Maybe in the next printing the footnotes could be published in a second volume for easy reference (7). It's the only way to make this read less tedious.All that said...it is an extremely comprehensive treatment of the subject told in a mildly interesting narrative. Having read a few other books on this topic I would call this treatment more-or-less average (8). If you're interested in transportation logistics it's not a bad read, but do not purchase this text thinking it's a casual read...you will be disappointed (9).The cover is nice.Notes1 - Does not include the 18 pages preceding numbered page 1.2 - 278 refers to numbered page 278, not physical page 278.3 - The author calls them "Notes". The "notes" pages have the corresponding referenced page ranges in the header.4 - Supplemental material in this context refers to the "notes", bibliography, abbreviations and the index.5 - Perhaps this book was not meant to be a storytelling book but instead a reference text.6 - Figuratively, not literally.7 - At additional cost. Of course the Kindle version probably wins in this respect.8 - Average in this context refers to a bell-shaped normalized distribution.9 - Disappointment level is frequently a function of expectation. Knowing the details of this review might alter your expectation and therefore your disappointment level.
What a great story! It's hard to appreciate how this boring, ubiquitous thing - the shipping container rapidly crept into every facet of our lives. These things are relatively new but they're everywhere. Levinson's book shows you how the container was developed, how it spread, and what it's used for. You'll learn about the early pioneers and the companies they spawned, some of which are still around. Just as fascinating, Levinson describes the world before "the box" - you'll be surprised how different transportation was in the recent past. There's no moralizing here, he just presents the facts in an objective way and lets you see the world as it is. Levinson comes across as genuinely interested in the subject and it rubs off on the reader. This is a book I've lent to friends as "you've got to read this". Everyone enjoys it. If you are a fan of human ingenuity or the history of engineering, international commerce, shipping, etc, you'll enjoy this book too.
You probably never thought much about it, I would bet. Me neither. You know, those big, ugly metal boxes - take them off the ship with specialized cranes, bolt them to a truck or stack them two high on a flat bed train car and get them where they are going. And vice versa. What could be more obvious that needing a standard to build to so all the moving and structural parts function together? Well, it may be common sense in hindsight but to the longshoremen on the piers of New York who used to load and unload cargo, it certainly was nothing they ever wanted. Certainly something the trucking and train lines and competing shipping firms weren't interested in solving.The book delves into these issues and explores the many ramifications of the evolution of container shipping upon the economic, political and financial impact of the system. Fascinating stuff and I would have rated the book higher but it tends to be dry, repetitive stuff and at times the chapters seemed more like sequential essays than a book. You know it may be a bit too on the scholarly side when your kindle indicates that you are only 60% finished when you finish the last chapter. The remaining 40%? Notes, bibliography, and index. So, looking a for a very thorough examination of the topic? This is your tome.
I found 'The Box' was absolutely fascinating. The story of the shipping container may have been largely ignored, but it explains so much about the onset of globalisation in late 20th century.Until the mid 1960s, ocean freight was transported in breakbulk ships; the cargo manually jammed into the ships' holds by teams of longshoremen. The process was laborious and time consuming. Major port cities like New York and London were structured around their docks, with factories near their ports to minimise the costs involved with the multiple handling and warehousing involved in transporting goods.Then, a few pioneers started trying to move freight in containers. Within a few short decades, containers revolutionised world trade. Containers of goods could be seamlessly moved from a factory, between trucks, trains, and ships to customers. Where once it may have taken months to ship a product from the US to Europe, it can now take less than a week. Global trade skyrocketed!Nobody predicted the enormous impact that containers were to have on the global economy. Once, firms concentrated their factories in one location to minimise transport costs. With the advent of fast, cheap and reliable container shipping, component manufacture was farmed out around the world to the cheapest supplier. The structures of port cities changed drastically, with whole longshore communities being destroyed, and factories moving to where land was cheap. Of course, countries in Asia soon became major manufacturing powers.
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