1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000020299

Titolo

Duccio : alle origini della pittura senese / a cura di Alessandro Bagnoli ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana, c2003

Descrizione fisica

539 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Disciplina

759.5

Soggetti

Duccio : di Buoninsegna

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Catalogo della Mostra tenuta a Siena nel 2003-2004

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794976203321

Autore

Paulsen Jana

Titolo

Auswirkungen von Stress auf die Synthese von Sekundärstoffen in Gewürz- und Arzneipflanzen / / von Jana Paulsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Göttingen, [Germany] : , : Cuvillier Verlag, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-7369-4814-X

Edizione

[1. Auflage.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

615.321

Soggetti

Medicinal plants

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965078903321

Autore

Hoig Stan

Titolo

The Chouteaus : first family of the fur trade / / Stan Hoig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2008

ISBN

9781283889551

1283889552

9780826343499

082634349X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (615 p.)

Disciplina

977.8/6600922

B

Soggetti

Pioneers - Missouri - Saint Louis

Fur traders - Missouri - Saint Louis

French Americans - Missouri - Saint Louis

Businessmen - Missouri - Saint Louis

Fur trade - Missouri River Valley - History

Frontier and pioneer life - Missouri River Valley

Saint Louis (Mo.) Biography

Missouri River Valley Biography

Missouri River Valley History

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 (p. 305-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Threshold to an empire -- Beyond the great river -- War and peace on the Missouri -- In a Spanish dungeon -- Scions to the fore -- Amid an Indian war -- A frontier in havoc -- The "Osage outfit" -- VIPs at the Verdigris -- Probing the plains -- To the prairies unknown -- Debt unto death -- Steamboats "to the mountains" -- A mile wide and six inches deep -- Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera -- Charles Chouteau at the helm -- Passions of war -- Requiems in retrospect -- Addendum : the Chouteau women -- Appendix A : Chouteau families and Osage offspring -- Appendix B : Chouteau-related trading posts -- Appendix C : Chouteau-involved Indian treaties.



Sommario/riassunto

In the late eighteenth century, the vast, pristine land that lay west of the Mississippi River remained largely unknown to the outside world. The area beckoned to daring frontiersmen who produced the first major industry of the American West--the colorful but challenging, often dangerous fur trade. At the lead was an enterprising French Creole family that founded the city of St. Louis in 1763 and pushed forth to garner furs for world markets. Stan Hoig provides an intimate look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade, a.