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Monmonier, Mark S.

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

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xiv, 215 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199).
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Names, Geographical -- United States -- Etymology.
	Names, Geographical -- Etymology.
	Toponymy.
	English language -- Etymology -- Names.
	English language -- Obscene words.
	Words, Obscene.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	0226534650 (alk. paper)