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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monmonier, Mark S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Names, Geographical > United States > Etymology.
Names, Geographical > Etymology.
Toponymy.
English language > Etymology > Names.
English language > Obscene words.
Obscene words.
Online Access:Table of contents
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.