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UNINA9910454288003321 |
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Autore |
VanderVelde Lea |
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Titolo |
Mrs. Dred Scott [[electronic resource] ] : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-98709-3 |
9786611987091 |
0-19-971064-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (497 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women slaves - United States |
Slaves - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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 (p. [443]-466) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Wife of a celebrity -- 1835 : arriving on the frontier -- Settling in -- Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency -- Late summer harvest -- Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives |
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insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. --from publisher description. |
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Record Nr. |
UNINA9910701439103321 |
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Autore |
García Roberto |
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Titolo |
Comparison of the booster interface temperature in stainless steel (SS) v-channel versus the aluminum (Al) y-channel Primer Chamber Assemblies (PCAs) [[electronic resource] /] / Roberto Garcia, Regor L. Saulsberry |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Hampton, Va. : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, , [2011] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations (some color) |
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Collana |
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NASA/TM ; ; 2011-217182/Volume I |
NASA/TM ; ; 2011-217182/Volume II |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Aluminum |
Stainless steels |
Temperature measurement |
Pyrotechnics |
Boosters (explosives) |
Control valves |
Primers (explosives) |
Computational fluid dynamics |
Resonance |
Flow chambers |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 19, 2012). |
"NESC-RP-09-00596." |
"October 2011." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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v.1. [no distinct title] -- v. 2. Appendices. |
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