From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow [electronic resource] : how maps name, claim, and inflame / Mark Monmonier.
2006
G105 .M66 2006eb
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow [electronic resource] : how maps name, claim, and inflame / Mark Monmonier.
Author
Monmonier, Mark S.
ISBN
0226534650 (alk. paper)
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Language
English
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xiv, 215 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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G105 .M66 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
910/.01/4
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199).
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Table of Contents
Naming and mapping
The quest for a national gazetteer
Purging pejoratives
Body parts and risqué toponyms
Going native
Your toponym or mine?
Erasures
Inscriptions
Epilogue : naming rites.
The quest for a national gazetteer
Purging pejoratives
Body parts and risqué toponyms
Going native
Your toponym or mine?
Erasures
Inscriptions
Epilogue : naming rites.