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The container: How one box reshaped our world and our thinking.
The Container Principle
How a Box Changes the Way We Think
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416 pages
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18 March 2025
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Summary
A cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm.
We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like a global cur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262051194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262051192 |
| Author: | Alexander Klose |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 18 March 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
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About The Author
Alexander Klose
Alexander Klose is a researcher and curator in the program department of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
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