{"product_id":"the-shipping-container-marcus-hale-9798188770624","title":"The Shipping Container: The Unlikely Story of the Steel Box That Shrank the World and Rewired Global Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most important object in modern trade is one you never look at.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn an April morning in 1956, a converted oil tanker left Newark harbor carrying fifty-eight steel boxes. Within two decades, that unremarkable metal container had quietly rebuilt the global economy-emptying old ports, filling new ones, and setting in motion the world of cheap goods and long supply chains we now take for granted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this vivid short history, Marcus Hale traces the container from an idea a North Carolina trucker loved to tell, through the engineer who taught the box to stack and lock, to the standard that made it universal and the war that proved it worked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside you will find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Malcom McLean gambled a trucking fortune on ships\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe twist-lock invention that made stacking possible-and why its patents were given away\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe vanished world of the dockworker, and the unions that fought the machine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe rise of megaships and the strange afterlife of boxes lost at sea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story of ordinary steel and extraordinary consequences, for anyone curious about how the modern world was actually built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcus Hale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798188770624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Marcus Hale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665962766591,"sku":"9798188770624","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-shipping-container-marcus-hale-9798188770624","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}