1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789765403321

Autore

Browning Robert M. <1955->

Titolo

United States merchant marine casualties of World War II [[electronic resource] /] / Robert M. Browning, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jefferson, NC, : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2011

ISBN

1-283-21319-2

9786613213198

0-7864-8497-7

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrowningRobert M. <1955->

Disciplina

940.545973

940.54'5973

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations, American

Merchant marine - United States - History - 20th century

Armed merchant ships - United States

Shipwrecks

Ship registers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Revised Edition; List of Abbreviations; War Casualties, 1940-1946; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300575803321

Autore

Di Vita Stefano

Titolo

Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces : Expos and Urban Agendas / / by Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319677682

3319677683

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXII, 152 p. 16 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Collana

Mega Event Planning, , 2633-5867

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Human geography

Urban Sociology

Human Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

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;



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. .