Richard V Francaviglia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1018089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard V Francaviglia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard V |
| FAMILY NAME | Francaviglia |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCAVIGLIA R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Willamette University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s-1950s
“Far Beyond the Western Sea of the Arabs…”: Reinterpreting Claims about Pre-Columbian Muslims in the Americas
This article employs a historiographical approach to examine the controversial premise that Muslim explorers reached the Americas well before Columbus. Interestingly, those who originally conceived this premise in the early-to-mid twentieth century were not Muslims, and they emphasized the cultural or geographical (African and/or Arabian) rather than religious origins of alleged explorers to the New World. By the mid-to-late twentieth century, ot…
Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient
[Francaviglia's] book is of great value, particularly in its illuminating showcasing of the degree to which the American West was consistently compared to aspects of the Middle East, from desert sands and rock formations to camel caravans and mirages. These comparisons helped to establish the West as an exotic locale, markedly different from the Europe-focused eastern half of the country and having a fascination of its own." Journal of Folklore R…
American Silence
American Silence Get access American Silence. By Papanikolas Zeese. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 221 pp. Illustrations, notes, $29.95, CAN $37.50, £22.95.) Richard V. Francaviglia Richard V. Francaviglia University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 3, Autumn 2008, Page 353, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/39.3.353 Published: 01…
Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History
Journal Article Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History Get access Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005, xviii + 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95.) John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly…
Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier
Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin
Journal Article Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin Get access Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. xxii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Christopher A. Conte Christopher A. Conte Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
"Are We Chimerical in this Opinion?" Visions of a Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1845
Although he deserves credit for promoting a transcontinental railroad as early as 1845, Asa Whitney may better represent the culmination of a discourse that had begun over twenty years earlier. Visions of a Pacific railroad originated in the 1820s and evolved into a widely debated issue by the 1830s. From the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, early promoters not only envisioned railroads to Oregon but also into the Mexican provinces of Californi…
Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
This collection of essays was taken from the papers presented at a 1996 symposium on the Mexican War held at the University of Texas at Arlington. Robert W. Johannsen sets the stage for the war in “Young America and the War with Mexico” by discussing various developments of the American character during the 1840s. He shows how a sense of romantic nationalism went along with technical breakthroughs such as the telegraph and the railroad to fuel th…
Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
Copper for America: The Unites States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
Journal Article Copper for America: The Unites States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xviii, 267 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1817-3.) Get access Richard V. Francaviglia Richard V. Francaviglia University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pag…
From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History: 1500-1900
From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900
Journal Article From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500–1900. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xx, 324 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-292-72503-5.) Get access Kevin J. Crisman Kevin J. Crisman Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 233–234, https://doi.…
Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America
Journal Article Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996. xxvi, 224 pp. Cloth, $39-95, ISBN 0-87745-542-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-87745543-0.) Get access Paul H. Mattingly Paul H. Mattingly New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, …
Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America
Journal Article Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America Get access Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America. By Francaviglia Richard V (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996). xxiv + 224 pp. Illustrations, charts, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, cloth; $17.95, paper). Richard O. Davies Richard O. Davies University of Nevada at Reno Search for other works by…
The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors
The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors
Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts
Journal Article Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of Americas Historic Mining Districts. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991. xx + 237 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87745-337-3.) Get access John Alexander Williams John Alexander Williams Appalachian State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1697–1698, https:/…
Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts
Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts
Journal Article Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts Get access Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991. xx + 237 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Patricia Mooney-Melvin Patricia Mooney-Melvin Loyola University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Main Street U.S.A: A Comparison/Contrast of Streetscapes in Disneyland and Walt Disney World
All visitors to Disneyland and Walt Disney World must enter the “magic kingdoms” by way of Main Street, U.S.A.—the Disney version of a small town landscape of around the turn of the century, the “classical period” in American streetscape evolution. Extending far beyond its park setting, Disney's idealized Main Street (along with the overall design of which it is a part) is “one of the most successfully designed streetscapes in human history,” and…
The Mormon Landscape: Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
Journal Article The Mormon Landscape: Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West Get access The Mormon Landscape: Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (New York: AMS Press, 1978. xviii + 177 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $12.50.) Tom Carter Tom Carter Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
The architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
Western Hay Derricks: Cultural Geography and Folklore as Revealed by Vanishing Agricultural Technology
Burnham of Chicago: Architect and planner
The Cemetery as an Evolving Cultural Landscape
Cemeteries are deliberately created and highly organized cultural landscapes. Investigation of five Oregon cemeteries, and casual observations in Utah, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York, has led to the conclusion that cemeteries have undergone the same general spatial and architectural evolution as the American scene, and that they may in fact be miniaturizations and idealizations of larger American settlement patterns
The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors
House Form and Culture
The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors
Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient
[Francaviglia's] book is of great value, particularly in its illuminating showcasing of the degree to which the American West was consistently compared to aspects of the Middle East, from desert sands and rock formations to camel caravans and mirages. These comparisons helped to establish the West as an exotic locale, markedly different from the Europe-focused eastern half of the country and having a fascination of its own." Journal of Folklore R…
Western Hay Derricks: Cultural Geography and Folklore as Revealed by Vanishing Agricultural Technology
Mormon Central-Hall Houses in the American West
The Central-hall house was brought into the American West by Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This house type has two basic floor plans, the narrow “I” and the wider “Four over Four” types. The Central-hall plan has a rich folklore in Mormon Country. Although some “Gentiles” built this type, it was generally outmoded by the time the West was opening up. Gentile settlements were dominated by Victorian and other …
House Form and Culture
The Cemetery as an Evolving Cultural Landscape
Cemeteries are deliberately created and highly organized cultural landscapes. Investigation of five Oregon cemeteries, and casual observations in Utah, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York, has led to the conclusion that cemeteries have undergone the same general spatial and architectural evolution as the American scene, and that they may in fact be miniaturizations and idealizations of larger American settlement patterns
Mormon Central-Hall Houses in the American West
The Central-hall house was brought into the American West by Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This house type has two basic floor plans, the narrow “I” and the wider “Four over Four” types. The Central-hall plan has a rich folklore in Mormon Country. Although some “Gentiles” built this type, it was generally outmoded by the time the West was opening up. Gentile settlements were dominated by Victorian and other …
The Sod House
Burnham of Chicago: Architect and planner
The architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
Western Hay Derricks: Cultural Geography and Folklore as Revealed by Vanishing Agricultural Technology
The Mormon Landscape: Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
Journal Article The Mormon Landscape: Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West Get access The Mormon Landscape: Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (New York: AMS Press, 1978. xviii + 177 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $12.50.) Tom Carter Tom Carter Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Main Street U.S.A: A Comparison/Contrast of Streetscapes in Disneyland and Walt Disney World
All visitors to Disneyland and Walt Disney World must enter the “magic kingdoms” by way of Main Street, U.S.A.—the Disney version of a small town landscape of around the turn of the century, the “classical period” in American streetscape evolution. Extending far beyond its park setting, Disney's idealized Main Street (along with the overall design of which it is a part) is “one of the most successfully designed streetscapes in human history,” and…
Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts
Journal Article Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of Americas Historic Mining Districts. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991. xx + 237 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87745-337-3.) Get access John Alexander Williams John Alexander Williams Appalachian State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1697–1698, https:/…
Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts
Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts
Journal Article Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts Get access Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991. xx + 237 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Patricia Mooney-Melvin Patricia Mooney-Melvin Loyola University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors
The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors
Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America
Journal Article Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996. xxvi, 224 pp. Cloth, $39-95, ISBN 0-87745-542-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-87745543-0.) Get access Paul H. Mattingly Paul H. Mattingly New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, …
Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America
Journal Article Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America Get access Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America. By Francaviglia Richard V (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996). xxiv + 224 pp. Illustrations, charts, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, cloth; $17.95, paper). Richard O. Davies Richard O. Davies University of Nevada at Reno Search for other works by…
From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History: 1500-1900
From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900
Journal Article From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500–1900. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xx, 324 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-292-72503-5.) Get access Kevin J. Crisman Kevin J. Crisman Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 233–234, https://doi.…
Copper for America: The Unites States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
Journal Article Copper for America: The Unites States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xviii, 267 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1817-3.) Get access Richard V. Francaviglia Richard V. Francaviglia University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pag…
Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
"Are We Chimerical in this Opinion?" Visions of a Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1845
Although he deserves credit for promoting a transcontinental railroad as early as 1845, Asa Whitney may better represent the culmination of a discourse that had begun over twenty years earlier. Visions of a Pacific railroad originated in the 1820s and evolved into a widely debated issue by the 1830s. From the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, early promoters not only envisioned railroads to Oregon but also into the Mexican provinces of Californi…
Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
This collection of essays was taken from the papers presented at a 1996 symposium on the Mexican War held at the University of Texas at Arlington. Robert W. Johannsen sets the stage for the war in “Young America and the War with Mexico” by discussing various developments of the American character during the 1840s. He shows how a sense of romantic nationalism went along with technical breakthroughs such as the telegraph and the railroad to fuel th…
Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier
Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin
Journal Article Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin Get access Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. xxii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Christopher A. Conte Christopher A. Conte Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History
Journal Article Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History Get access Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005, xviii + 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95.) John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly…
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