Naval-gazing : the popular geopolitics of affect and maritime heritage

• Main Authors: Dittmer, Jason, Waterton, Emma (R16010)
• Other Authors: Mostafanezhad, Mary (Editor), Azcárate, Matilde Córdoba (Editor), Norum, Roger (Editor)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: U.S., University of Arizona Press 2021
• Subjects: 440608 - Recreation; leisure and tourism geography; Arctic; Cruiser; Pacific
• Online Access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48522; https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:60824

The light cruiser HMS Belfast was launched in 1938 as part of a great power struggle between the British, Japanese, and Americans for naval supremacy in the Pacific Ocean. The ship did not make it to the Pacific until much later, however, as the outbreak of war in Europe meant it became embroiled in...