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

By:

Monmonier, Mark S

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ebrary, Inc

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 215 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s):

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Electronic books.

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910/.01/4 22

LOC classification:

G105 .M66 2006eb

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An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Contents:

Naming and mapping -- The quest for a national gazetteer -- Purging pejoratives -- Body parts and risqu�e toponyms -- Going native -- Your toponym or mine? -- Erasures -- Inscriptions -- Epilogue : naming rites.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199).

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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