The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We Think

by Alexander Klose

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028573
• ISBN13: 9780262028578
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher