1.

Record Nr.

UNIPARTHENOPE000004149

Autore

International maritime association of Mediterranean

Titolo

9. Congress IMAM 2000 : Ischia (Italy), 2-6 april 2000 / International maritime association of Mediterranean ; editors Pasquale Cassella, Antonio Scamardella, Giuseppe Festinese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : Università "Federico II", Dipartimento [di] ingegneria navale

Napoli : Istituto universitario navale, 2000

ISBN

88-87951-00-4

Descrizione fisica

3 v. : ill. ; 30 cm

Disciplina

623.81

Collocazione

S 623.8/13

S 623.8/14

S 623.8/15

623-I/4/I

623-I/4/II

623-I/4/III

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003583500203316

Autore

EURIPIDES

Titolo

7: Andromaca Elena Il ciclope / Euripide ; con incisioni di A. De Carolis e A. Moroni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna : Zanichelli, 1931

Titolo uniforme

Andromacha

Descrizione fisica

310 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Collana

I poeti greci tradotti da Ettore Romagnoli

Collocazione

XV.2.A. 750 7.7

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781544503321

Autore

Lair Meredith H

Titolo

Armed with abundance [[electronic resource] ] : consumerism and soldiering in the Vietnam War / / Meredith H. Lair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4696-1903-2

1-4696-0252-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

959.704/31

Soggetti

Soldiers - United States - Social life and customs - 20th century

Lifestyles - United States - History - 20th century

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects

United States Moral conditions History 20th century

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

A war refined : reframing the narrative of the Vietnam War -- Same side, different wars: grunts and REMFs in Vietnam -- This place just isn't John Wayne: U.S. military bases in Vietnam -- Total war on boredom: the U.S. military's recreation program in Vietnam -- The things they bought: G.I. consumerism in Vietnam -- War zone wonderland: the strange world of "the Nam" -- From Vietnam to Iraq: reimagining the American way of war.

Sommario/riassunto

Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other ""comforts"" share the frame with combat.To address a tenuous morale situation, military authorities, Lair reveals, wielded abundance to insulate soldiers--and, by extension, the American public--from boredom and deprivation, making the project of war perhaps easier