“The container is thirty years old this year. It’s an invention that makes you go: I could have thought of that. What’s a container? A very large iron box. But the idea of globally standardizing it turns out to have been an enormously significant contribution. Imagine having to put all those items from China into cardboard boxes and unloading them like they used to at Rotterdam Harbour. The costs would hit the ceiling.”
Maarten van Rossem, historian and author
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Vintage)
by Walter Russell Mead
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Isbn-13: 9780375713736
A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challeged—by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda—and for the most part, it has prevailed....
