1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153282403321

Autore

Lindig Steffen

Titolo

Mein Freund Rolli : Ein Kriminalroman gegen Bescheidenheit und andere Fehler / / Steffen Lindig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zurich, [Switzerland] : , : edition 8, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

3-85990-194-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 p.)

Disciplina

301.2

301.24

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Kurztitel; Titel; Copyright; Danksagung; Prolog; Erster Teil; Zweiter Teil; Dritter Teil; Glossar

Sommario/riassunto

Meistens sehen wir sie nur von weitem, aber manchmal stehen sie ganz nah bei uns im Tram mit abgewandtem Blick. Menschen, die was an sich haben, von dem sie sich partout nicht trennen, obwohl es ihnen das Leben schwer macht. Einsam streunend treiben sie sich rum. Bei der nächsten Haltestelle steigen sie aus und lassen uns zurück mit grossen Fragen.Selber schuld? Wollen die das so? Können die nicht anders? Chancenlos geblieben trotz aller Mühe?Zwei solcher Typen sind die Protagonisten einer Geschichte, die anders endet als erwartet. Er schummelt sich in Zürich durch als erfolgloser Journi und G



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968902903321

Autore

García Rodríguez Gloria

Titolo

Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba : a documentary history / / Gloria García Rodríguez ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate ; foreword by Ada Ferrer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-908787-5-5

979-88-9313-177-2

1-4696-0266-0

0-8078-7767-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução

Altri autori (Persone)

WestrateNancy L

FerrerAda

Disciplina

306.3/62097291

306.362097291

Soggetti

Slavery - Cuba - History

Slavery - Cuba

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: México : Centro de Investigacíon Científica "Ing. Jorge L Tamayo," 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Slavery and its legal regulation : the slave code : royal decree and instructional circular for the indies on the education, treatment, and work regimen of slaves : May 31, 1789 -- Slaveholders and the slave code : statement from Havana's ingenio owners to the king : Havana, January 19, 1790 -- Toward a new slave code -- Slavery and family life -- The plantation social network -- Solidarity in the face of injustice -- The labor relations of Coartado slaves.

Sommario/riassunto

Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, introduces the work, providing a history of the development, maintenance, and economy of the slave system in Cuba, which was abolished in 1886, later than in any country in the Americas except Brazil. The second part



of the book features eighty previously unpublished primary doc