1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465717503321

Titolo

Heat exchangers [[electronic resource] ] : types, design, and applications / / Spencer T. Branson, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2011

ISBN

1-61761-425-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Energy science, engineering and technology

Altri autori (Persone)

BransonSpencer T

Disciplina

621.402/5

Soggetti

Heat exchangers

Electronic books.

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450081503321

Autore

Lawrence Mark Atwood

Titolo

Assuming the burden [[electronic resource] ] : Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam / / Mark Atwood Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005

ISBN

1-4175-8499-8

0-520-94085-7

1-59734-474-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 pages)

Collana

From Indochina to Vietnam : revolution and war in a global perspective ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

959.704/12

Soggetti

Indochinese War, 1946-1954

Electronic books.

Indochina History 1945-

United States Foreign relations France

France Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Vietnam

Vietnam Foreign relations United States

France Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations France

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

Contesting Vietnam -- Visions of Indochina and the world -- U.S. assistance and its limits -- Illusions of autonomy -- Constructing Vietnam -- Crisis renewed -- Domestic divides, foreign solutions -- Closing the circle.

Sommario/riassunto

This beautifully crafted and solidly researched book explains why and how the United States made its first commitment to Vietnam in the late 1940's. Mark Atwood Lawrence deftly explores the process by which the Western powers set aside their fierce disagreements over colonialism and extended the Cold War fight into the Third World. Drawing on an unprecedented array of sources from three countries, Lawrence illuminates the background of the U.S. government's decision



in 1950 to send military equipment and economic aid to bolster France in its war against revolutionaries. That decision, he argues, marked America's first definitive step toward embroilment in Indochina, the start of a long series of moves that would lead the Johnson administration to commit U.S. combat forces a decade and a half later. Offering a bold new interpretation, the author contends that the U.S. decision can be understood only as the result of complex transatlantic deliberations about colonialism in Southeast Asia in the years between 1944 and 1950. During this time, the book argues, sharp divisions opened within the U.S., French, and British governments over Vietnam and the issue of colonialism more generally. While many liberals wished to accommodate nationalist demands for self-government, others backed the return of French authority in Vietnam. Only after successfully recasting Vietnam as a Cold War conflict between the democratic West and international communism-a lengthy process involving intense international interplay-could the three governments overcome these divisions and join forces to wage war in Vietnam. One of the first scholars to mine the diplomatic materials housed in European archives, Lawrence offers a nuanced triangulation of foreign policy as it developed among French, British, and U.S. diplomats and policymakers. He also brings out the calculations of Vietnamese nationalists who fought bitterly first against the Japanese and then against the French as they sought their nation's independence. Assuming the Burden is an eloquent illustration of how elites, operating outside public scrutiny, make decisions with enormous repercussions for decades to come.



3.

Record Nr.

UNICASRML0298298

Autore

Orsini, Gabriele

Titolo

Società e vita economica / Gabriele Orsini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : FrancoAngeli, ©1988

ISBN

8820425270

Descrizione fisica

391 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Collana di sociologia ; 115

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Economia e società

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia