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Before Lewis and Clark

The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier

By: Shirley Christian

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Before Lewis and Clark

The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier

By: Shirley Christian

Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From their St. Louis base, the Chouteaus, patrician and French in their origins, made their fortunes along the two-thousand-mile length of the Missouri River. Led by the brothers Auguste and Pierre, the family not only engaged in land speculation, finance, and the fur trade but also acted as suppliers and advisers to expeditions and enterprises between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains?including the famous expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806. This is the story of the Old World meeting the New, of the eastern United States discovering the West, and of a wealthy, powerful, charming, and manipulative family that dominated business and politics in the Louisiana Purchase territory before and after the Lewis and Clark expedition.

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540

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803225245

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9780803225244

English Historical Semantics

By: Christian Kay

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English Historical Semantics

By: Christian Kay

This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. .

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268

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474409121

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9781474409124

Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses

Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics

By: Daphne Halkias,Christian Adendorff

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Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses

Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics

By: Daphne Halkias,Christian Adendorff

Family businesses constitute some of the most unique, complex, and dynamic systems in modern society. The blending of the performance-based world of business and the emotion-based domain of the family creates a system potentially fraught with confusion and conflict. The significant rise in immigrant family businesses adds a further level of complexity to this mix. Research into immigrant family businesses has been based on traditional, limited views of entrepreneurship largely ignoring the ethnic and family contexts that create the culture from which entrepreneurship emerges, making it impossible to understand the complex and interdependent relationships between an owning family, its firm, its governance and the community context in which the firm operates. These firms possess features that make their governance a challenging task. They depict a complex stakeholder structure, whereby the ownership stakes are passed from one generation to the next. The owning family's members usually play multiple roles, thereby blurring governance relationships. Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses explores the relationship between ethnic cultural influence in family businesses and its impact on corporate governance, addressing the intertwined influences of contractual, relational and cultural governance mechanisms and sets out a comprehensive theoretical model which clarifies the complexities involved in business planning, family harmony, and ethnic cultural variables. The authors specifically identify the implications for research, education, and practice. Application of their model will be of value to policy makers, consultants, business researchers and educators.

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233

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Routledge

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1317125959

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9781317125952

Creatine Kinase

By: Christian Vial

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Creatine Kinase

By: Christian Vial

Creatine kinases and arginine kinases are an historical model in enzymology. They belong to the large family of phosphagen kinases which transfer a phosphoryl group from ATP to a nitrogen atom within a guanidinium group to form that was called by the early muscle physiologists a 'phosphagen'. These compounds and the enzymes that catalyse their formation and use are present in cells with important and rapidly fluctuating energy requirements.

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296

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Nova Publishers

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1594547157

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9781594547157

Salvation and Solvency

The Socio-Economic Policies of Early Mormonism

By: Robert Christian Kahlert

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Salvation and Solvency

The Socio-Economic Policies of Early Mormonism

By: Robert Christian Kahlert

This monograph tracks the development of the socio-economic stance of early Mormonism, an American Millenarian Restorationist movement, through the first fourteen years of the church’s existence, from its incorporation in the spring of 1830 in New York, through Ohio and Missouri and Illinois, up to the lynching of its prophet Joseph Smith Jr in the summer of 1844. Mormonism used a new revelation, the Book of Mormon, and a new apostolically inspired church organization to connect American antiquities to covenant-theological salvation history. The innovative religious strategy was coupled with a conservative socio-economic stance that was supportive of technological innovation. This analysis of the early Mormon church uses case studies focused on socio-economic problems, such as wealth distribution, the financing of publication projects, land trade and banking, and caring for the poor. In order to correct for the agentive overtones of standard Mormon historiography, both in its supportive and in its detractive stance, the explanatory models of social time from Fernand Braudel’s classic work on the Mediterranean are transferred to and applied in the nineteenth-century American context.

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472

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110472678

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9783110472677

The Power of Words

Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics : in Honour of Christian J. Kay

By: Graham D. Caie,Carole Hough,Irené Wotherspoon

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The Power of Words

Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics : in Honour of Christian J. Kay

By: Graham D. Caie,Carole Hough,Irené Wotherspoon

This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in terms for politeness, money and humour. In the area of Old English studies there are articles on kinship terminology and colour lexemes, and in Middle English a semantic and syntactic study of the overlapping of the verbs dreden and douten. Many of the essays make use of the Historical Thesaurus of English project at the University of Glasgow, and pay tribute to its Director, Professor Christian Kay; e.g., one article demonstrates how the HTE, a project which is at the interface between historical semantics and lexicography, may present a rich resource for information about the lexicalization of concepts within our culture, such as changing social attitudes in the area of will, consent and coercion. Other resources, such as The Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, and the Oxford English Dictionary provide a rich source for information on historical lexicography, semantics and editing. A number of essays concern the Scots language, such as an analysis of evaluative terms in modern Scots speech and writing, the rich potential of rhyme in Scots, and the role of lexicon in th- fronting in Glaswegian.

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245

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Rodopi

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9042021217

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9789042021211

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Before Lewis and Clark

Before Lewis and Clark

English Historical Semantics

English Historical Semantics

Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses

Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses

Creatine Kinase

Creatine Kinase

Salvation and Solvency

Salvation and Solvency

The Power of Words

The Power of Words

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