From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow [electronic resource] : how maps name, claim, and inflame / Mark Monmonier.

By: Monmonier, Mark SContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: xiv, 215 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Names, Geographical -- United States -- Etymology | Names, Geographical -- Etymology | Toponymy | English language -- Etymology -- Names | English language -- Obscene words | Words, ObsceneGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 910/.01/4 LOC classification: G105 | .M66 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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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