Associate Professor of American Studies Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse. She traces the progression from the nineteenth century’s bonded warehouses to today’s foreign-trade zones, enclaves where goods can be simultaneously on US soil and off US customs territory.
Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
December 2, 2019
Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism