From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
Monmonier, Mark S.
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow how maps name, claim, and inflame / [electronic resource] : Mark Monmonier. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - xiv, 215 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199).
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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GBA622745 bnb
Uk
Names, Geographical--Etymology.--United States
Names, Geographical--Etymology.
Toponymy.
English language--Etymology--Names.
English language--Obscene words.
Words, Obscene.
Electronic books.
G105 / .M66 2006eb
910/.01/4
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow how maps name, claim, and inflame / [electronic resource] : Mark Monmonier. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - xiv, 215 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199).
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA622745 bnb
Uk
Names, Geographical--Etymology.--United States
Names, Geographical--Etymology.
Toponymy.
English language--Etymology--Names.
English language--Obscene words.
Words, Obscene.
Electronic books.
G105 / .M66 2006eb
910/.01/4