From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil dril... more

In this book the authors develop and work out applications to gravity and gauge theories and their i... more

For a hundred and fifty years, historians have debated contradictory claims about the origins of the... more

maritime history of Texas remains largely untold. In this book, Richard V. Francaviglia offers a comprehensive overview of...... more

This book critically examines how movies that feature real or imagined explorers and expeditions cre... more

Widely regarded as the driest place on earth, the seemingly desolate Atacama Desert of Chile is a pl... more

decades. Geographer Richard V. Francaviglia recounts his own awakening to the spirituality of place as he suddenly sees the...... more

From their earliest days on the American frontier through their growth into a worldwide church, the ... more

The series, established by one of the twentieth-century West s most distinguished historians, Leonar... more

brought to the West. Such complexity is what historical geographer Richard Francaviglia unravels in this book. Since the...... more

The extremely varied geography of Texas, ranging from lush piney woods to arid, mountainous deserts,... more

redress this imbalance. Editors Roberto R. Trevi o and Richard Francaviglia have assembled here a variety of scholarly voices...... more

One of the most useful tools for studying hyperbolic 3-manifolds is the technique of ideal triangula... more

1998 film Human Remains. Richard Francaviglia s chapter on films about the Middle East is especially timely in the post-9...... more

, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin s gradual emergence from its large cartographic silence both paralleled...... more

This publication explores how spiritual beliefs affect both the environment and the human spirit in ... more

natural environment of the Cross Timbers and the role that people have played in transforming the region. Richard Francaviglia...... more

Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the...... more

, Richard Francaviglia finds the sources of romanticized images of this archetype, including Walt Disney s Main Street USA, in...... more

Why has the American Southwest been celebrated as a place of beauty and history even as it was conde... more

This is the proceedings of the 9th conference in this series. In addition to papers presented at the... more