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| author            = [[Marc Levinson]]
| isbn              = 0-691-12324-1
| pub_date          = 2006
| language          = English
| country           = [[United States]]
| genre             = Non-fiction
| publisher         = [[Princeton University Press]]
}}
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'''''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.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article699722.ece | title = Thinking outside the box | first = Howard  | last = Davies | date = 2006-04-01 | work = Times Online}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003232_pf.html | title = Globalization 1.0 | first = Nora | last = Krug | date = 2008-04-13 | newspaper = [[Washington Post]]}}</ref> The ''[[New York Times]]'' called it "a smart, engaging book".<ref>{{cite news |title=A Revolution That Came In a Box |first=Joe | last = Nocera |work=The New York Times |date=2006-05-13 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E5DB143EF930A25756C0A9609C8B63 |access-date=2009-01-24}}</ref>
The book inspired the name for the project "[[The Box (BBC container)|The Box]]" run by [[BBC News]] from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were [[Containerization#BBC tracking project|tracking a container]] for a period of one year.<ref name="BBCBoxlaunch">{{cite web | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7600180.stm | first = Jeremy | last = Hillman | publisher = [[BBC News]] | title = The Box takes off on global journey | date = 2008-09-08}}</ref>
''The Box'' won a bronze medal in the [[Independent Publisher Book Awards]] (2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1157 |title=Announcing 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results |publisher=Independent Publisher Book Awards |date=2007 |access-date=July 20, 2013}}</ref> It also won the 2007 Anderson Medal from the [[Society for Nautical Research]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://snr.org.uk/researchsnr/awards/ |title=Awards |publisher=[[Society for Nautical Research]]}}</ref> ''The Box'' was shortlisted for the [[Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award]] (2006).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/62bd09a6-4734-11db-83df-0000779e2340.html#axzz1wN6ZbWuA |title=Award shortlist announced 2006 |work=Financial Times |date=18 September 2006 |access-date=30 May 2012}}</ref>
==Editions==
*{{cite book | title = The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger | first = Marc | last = Levinson | year = 2006 | url = https://archive.org/details/boxhowshippin00levi | isbn = 0-691-12324-1 | publisher = Princeton University Press | url-access = registration }}
*{{Cite book|title=The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger|last=Levinson|first=Marc|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-691-17081-7|edition=2nd}}
The 2nd edition has an extra chapter.
== Chapters ==
# 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 ==
* [[Dry port]] – aka "Inland Port"
* [[Intermodal container]]
== Bibliography ==
* Outside the Box – How Globalization Changed From Moving Stuff To Spreading Ideas. Front cover of book states author is Marc Levinson;{{cn|date=May 2024}}
==References==
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