1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716980503321

Autore

Kuhn Paul

Titolo

Loads imposed on intermediate frames of stiffened shells / / by Paul Kuhn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, [D.C.] : , : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, , 1939

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (30 pages, 14 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Collana

Technical note / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; ; No. 687

Soggetti

Shells (Engineering)

Structural frames

Loads (Mechanics)

Mathematical analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 1939."

No Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item number.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-30).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704299003321

Autore

Smith Ward C. <1906-1998, >

Titolo

Geologic investigations in American Republics, 1946 Tungsten investigations in the Republic of Argentina, 1942-43 / / by Ward C. Smith and E.M. González

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1947

Washington : , : United States Government Printing Office

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 37 pages, 17 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps (some color)

Collana

Bulletin (Geological Survey (U.S.)) ; ; no. 954-A

Soggetti

Tungsten ores - Argentina

Mines and mineral resources - Argentina

Mines and mineral resources

Tungsten ores

Argentina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed July 16, 2014).

"Prepared in cooperation with the Direccion General de Minas y Geologia, Republica Argentina under the auspices of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, Department of State."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797366303321

Autore

Aching Gerard

Titolo

Freedom from liberation : slavery, sentiment, and literature in Cuba / / Gerard Aching

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-253-01705-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Blacks in the diaspora

Disciplina

306.3/6209729109034

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Cuba

Slavery - Cuba - History - 19th 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

Introduction -- liberalisms at odds: slavery and the struggle for an autochthonous literature -- In spite of himself: unconscious resistance and melancholy attachments in Manzano's autobiography -- Being adequate to the task: an abolitionist translates the desire to be free -- Freedom without equality: slave protagonists, free blacks, and their bodies -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced to date, Manzano's autobiography details the daily grind of the vast majority of slaves who sought relief from the burden of living under slavery. Aching combines historical narrative and literary criticism to take the reader beyond Manzano's text to examine the motivations behind anticolonial an