The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF Download

Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: Cirilo Villaverde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.

Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1294

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Author: Folke Gernert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695758
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Author: Heinrich Ahrens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789564071602
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Languages : es
Pages : 0

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El Curso de Derecho Natural que presentamos al público, tiene por objeto satisfacer la necesidad que sienten la Francia y la Bélgica de una obra metódica para la enseñanza, escrita en francés y puesta al nivel de las nuevas ideas filosóficas, desenvueltas en los últimos tiempos con mucha exactitud y profundidad. Sensible es que la Francia no haya cooperado con su inteligencia a la cultura de esta doctrina.La teoría del Derecho, que exponemos en este curso, considera el principio del Derecho como distinto e independiente de todos los otros principios que gobiernan el mundo moral y social; y sobre todo distingue con claridad el Derecho de la moral, con la que frecuentemente se le confunde; confusión que no solo es falsa en teoría, sino que en la aplicación produciría el más odioso despotismo, si el sentido positivo y recto de los hombres versados en el ejercicio del Derecho no se opusiesen a él; pues es indudable que a su sombra abocaría así el foro del Derecho o de la justicia todos los actos que pertenecen a la conciencia, único tribunal competente. Sin embargo, aunque el Derecho en cuanto a su principio, sea independiente y llene por sí solo el cuadro de una ciencia, no por eso deja de estar en íntima relación con las otras ciencias.

Author: William Belmont Parker
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017689655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Juan Francisco Manzano
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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The proceedings of ISCV'95, the successor to previous Workshops on Computer Vision, comprise 104 refereed papers on topics in optical flow, matching/stereo, motion, object recognition, low-level vision, CAD-based vision, stereo, deformable models, systems and applications, tracking, segmentation and grouping, active vision, aerial image analysis, and integration/texture. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Pierre Vilar
Publisher: Pergamon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Friedrich Bouterwek
Publisher:
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Category : Portuguese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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