From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow how maps name, claim, and inflame /

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 risque toponyms -- Going native -- Your toponym or mine? -- Erasures -- Inscriptions -- Epilogue : naming rites.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Names, Geographical--Etymology.--United States
Names, Geographical--Etymology.
Toponymy.
English language--Etymology--Names.
English language--Obscene words.
Words, Obscene.


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