Richard Francaviglia
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Near East to Far West ; Fictions of French and American Colonialism
Jennifer R. Henneman
- Yale university press
- 14 Mars 2023
- 9780300266047
A new look at French Orientalism's influence on the art of the American West, showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the United States
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Main Street Revisited ; Time, Space and Image Building in Small-town America
Richard Francaviglia
- University of iowa press
- 31 Août 1996
- 9780877455424
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Go East, Young Man ; Imagining the American West as the Orient
Richard Francaviglia
- Utah state university press
- 1 Novembre 2019
- 9781607329282
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Imagining the Atacama Desert ; A Five-Hundred-Year Journey of Discovery
Richard Francaviglia
- University of utah press,u.s.
- 28 Septembre 2018
- 9781607816102
Widely regarded as the driest place on earth, the seemingly desolate Atacama Desert of Chile is a place steeped in intrigue and haunted by collective memories. This book, based on archival research and the author's personal field work, brings together the works of geographers, historians, anthropologists, botanists, geologists, astronomers, novelists, and others to offer a nuanced understanding of this complex desert landscape.
Beginning with the indigenous Atacameno peoples at the southern edge of the Incan empire, the volume moves through five hundred years of history, sharing accounts written by Spanish, French, German, Dutch, British, American, and other travelers-pirates, scientists, explorers, and entrepreneurs among them. The Atacama's austere landscape hides many secrets, including vast mineral wealth, the world's oldest mummies, and the more recent remains of dissidents murdered by the regime of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the early 1970s. Today numerous observatories operate under the Atacama's clear night skies, astronauts train on the rugged desert floor, and tourists flock there for inspiration.
In addition to a rich set of narratives, the book features 115 images-historical maps, photographs, and natural history illustrations, most in full color-to tell a more complete and compelling story. Imagining the Atacama Desert shows how what was once a wilderness at the edges of empire became one of South America's most iconic regions, one that continues to lure those seeking adventure and the unknown.
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Oysters, Macaroni and Beer ; Thurber, Texas and the Company Store
Gene Rhea Tucker
- Texas tech press,u.s.
- 30 Septembre 2012
- 9780896727687
From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company operated and managed the various commercial and service enterprises essential to the life and history of Thurber, Texas.
Thurber was a company town, wholly owned by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company, and the inhabitants viewed the "company store" with suspicion before and after unionisation in 1903, believing it monopolistic and exploitative. But to call the mercantile a monopoly, or a mere contrivance to exploit labourers, paints an incomplete portrait of the company store as it existed in Thurber and elsewhere.
With a keen eye for spotting telling detail, Gene Rhea Tucker examines a wealth of company ledgers, interviews, and newspaper accounts, presenting a case study not only of the microcosm of Thurber and TPM&M but of relations between labour and management in industrialising Texas, and a larger story of the complex role of the company store and company town in America. -
Main Street Revisited ; Time, Space and Image Building in Small-town America
Richard Francaviglia
- University of iowa press
- 1 Juin 1996
- 9780877455431
As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and idealized images. In Main Street Revisited, the first book to place the design of small downtowns in spatial and chronological context, Richard Francaviglia finds the sources of romanticized images of this archetype, including Walt Disney's Main Street USA, in towns as diverse as Marceline, Missouri, and Fort Collins, Colorado.Francaviglia interprets Main Street both as a real place and as an expression of collective assumptions, designs, and myths; his Main Streets are treasure troves of historic patterns. Using many historical and contemporary photographs and maps for his extensive fieldwork and research, he reveals a rich regional pattern of small-town development that serves as the basis for American community design. He underscores the significance of time in the development of Main Street's distinctive personality, focuses on the importance of space in the creation of place, and concentrates on popular images that have enshrined Main Street in the collective American consciousness.
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Go East, Young Man ; Imagining the American West as the Orient
Richard Francaviglia
- Utah state university press
- 20 Octobre 2011
- 9780874218091
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Believing In Place ; A Spiritual Geography Of The Great Basin
Richard V. Francaviglia
- University of nevada press
- 3 Mars 2016
- 9781943859078
Presents the personal testimony of a scientist who discovers the divine in the land he has studied for decades. Geographer Richard V. Francaviglia recounts his own awakening to the spirituality of "place" as he suddenly sees the sacred dimension of science.
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The Mapmakers of New Zion ; A Cartographic History of Mormonism
Richard Francaviglia
- University of utah press,u.s.
- 12 Juin 2015
- 9781607814085
From their earliest days on the American frontier through their growth into a worldwide church, the spatially expansive Mormons made maps to help them create idealized communities, migrate to and colonize large parts of the American West, visualize the stories in their sacred texts, and spread their message internationally through a well-organized missionary system. This book identifies many Mormon mapmakers who played an important but heretofore unsung role in charting the course of Latter-day Saint history. For Mormons, maps had and continue to have both practical and spiritual significance. In addition to using maps to help build their new Zion and to explore the Intermountain West, Latter-day Saint mapmakers used them to depict locations and events described in the Book of Mormon.
Featuring over one hundred historical maps reproduced in full color-many never before published-The Mapmakers of New Zion sheds new light on Mormonism and takes readers on a fascinating journey through maps as both historical documents and touchstones of faith. -
Catholicism in the American West ; A Rosary of Hidden Voices
- Texas a & m university press
- 11 Décembre 2007
- 9781585446216
Offers a portrait of the Catholic experience in and impact on the American West. These studies are examples of the scholarship ""reshaping how historians understand the role of Catholicism both in the development of the West and in the broader history of the nation.
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From Sail to Steam ; Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900
Richard V. Francaviglia
- University of texas press
- 1 Mars 1998
- 9780292723054
A comprehensive overview of Texas' merchant and military marine history.
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The Cast Iron Forest ; A Natural and Cultural History of the North American Cross Timbers
Richard V. Francaviglia
- University of texas press
- 1 Avril 2000
- 9780292725164
This book describes the natural environment of the Cross Timbers and interprets the role that people have played in transforming the region.
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Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin ; A Cartographic History
Richard V. Francaviglia
- University of nevada press
- 30 Avril 2005
- 9780874176094
A study of how the Great Basin's gradual emergence from its "large cartographic silence" both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography, and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the US.
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The Mormon Landscape ; Existence, Creation and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
Richard Francaviglia
- Ams press
- 1 Janvier 1978
- 9780404160203
