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UNINA9910789765403321 |
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Browning Robert M. <1955-> |
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United States merchant marine casualties of World War II [[electronic resource] /] / Robert M. Browning, Jr |
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Jefferson, NC, : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2011 |
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1-283-21319-2 |
9786613213198 |
0-7864-8497-7 |
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Edizione |
[Rev. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (420 p.) |
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BrowningRobert M. <1955-> |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations, American |
Merchant marine - United States - History - 20th century |
Armed merchant ships - United States |
Shipwrecks |
Ship registers - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Revised Edition; List of Abbreviations; War Casualties, 1940-1946; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
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The U.S. merchant marine played a critical, though often overlooked, role in World War II. This reference work provides a brief narrative of each of the recorded attacks on American-flagged merchant ships, as well as an accounting of the men and the ships, which were a part of this worldwide conflict. In addition to the wealth of data on the ships, their crews and cargoes, it depicts the exciting and often violent story of the hundreds of enemy attacks on convoys and lone merchant vessels. Evident within the narrative is the gallantry and sacrifice of naval gun crews and the merchant crewmen. |
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UNINA9910300575803321 |
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Autore |
Di Vita Stefano |
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Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces : Expos and Urban Agendas / / by Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XXII, 152 p. 16 illus., 8 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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Mega Event Planning, , 2633-5867 |
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Sociology, Urban |
Human geography |
Urban Sociology |
Human Geography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1. Mega-events and legacies: A tradition of studies -- Chapter 2. The spatial projects of the Expo 2015 and the post-event -- Chapter 3. The planning and governance of the Expo 2015 and the post-event -- Chapter 4. From the post-Expo 2015 to a future Milan urban agenda -- Chapter 5. 5. World's Fairs and processes of urban change -- Chapter 6. Towards a post-crisis urban agenda. Learning from Mega-Events -- Chapter 7. Mega-events and urban studies. Which mutual effects?. |
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This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World's Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post-metropolitan spaces. The two main aims of comparing Milan to previous expos such as Lisbon 1998, Zaragoza 2008 and Shanghai 2010, were to demonstrate the contribution of the 2015 World's Fair to the urban innovation process and to the debate surrounding a new urban agenda; |
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as well as to examine empirically and theoretically the international discussion regarding the growth of regional and macro-regional scales of contemporary cities in order to offer suggestions for future urban agendas through mega-events. This book will be of great value to students, researchers and policy makers in the area of urban planning and the urban studies more broadly, geography and spatial politics. . |
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