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Record Nr.

UNINA9910894250703321

Titolo

Dynamics and statistics of the climate system

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016-

ISSN

2059-6987

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

551

Soggetti

Dynamic meteorology

Ocean-atmosphere interaction

Convection (Meteorology)

Atmospheric physics

Climatology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Sommario/riassunto

Dynamics and Statistics of the Climate System provides a unique forum for the interdisciplinary field of quantitative climate research. The journal encourages the interaction between physicists, statisticians, mathematicians, computer scientists, and earth scientists in the development of new models and methods applied to the analysis of the climate system.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969264503321

Autore

Batrell Ricardo <1880->

Titolo

A black soldier's story : the narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence / / Ricardo Batrell ; edited and translated by Mark A. Sanders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8166-7489-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SandersMark A. <1963->

Disciplina

972.91/05

Soggetti

Black people - Cuba

Soldiers - Cuba

Cuba History Revolution, 1895-1898 Personal narratives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Para la historia : apuntes autobiograficos de la vida de Ricardo Batrell Oviedo. Habana : Seoane y Alvarez, impresores, 1912.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban Racial Narrative: An Introduction to A Black Soldier's Story; A Note on Translation and Editing; A Black Soldier's Story; Looking for Ricardo Batrell in Havana: An Appendix Essay; Acknowledgments; Translator's Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1896, an illiterate, fifteen-year-old Afro-Cuban field hand joined the rebel army fighting for Cuba's independence. Though poor and uneducated, Ricardo Batrell believed in the promise of Cuba Libre, the vision of a democratic and egalitarian nation that inspired the Cuban War of Independence. After the war ended in 1898, Batrell taught himself to read and write and published a memoir of his wartime experiences, Para la Historia . Originally published in 1912-the same year in which the Cuban government massacred more than 5,000 Afro-Cubans-this work of both protest and patriotism is the only