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Author Monmonier, Mark S.

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

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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 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)

 
    
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