Author: Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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"The story behind the naming of important mountains, counties, rivers, cities, lakes, capes, bays"--Cover.
Author: William Bright
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520920546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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This is the new "pocket" version of the classic California Place Names, first published by California in 1949. Erwin G. Gudde's monumental work, which went through several editions during its author's lifetime, has now been released in an expanded and updated edition by William Bright. The abridged version, originally called 1000 California Place Names, has grown to a dynamic 1500 California Place Names in Bright's hands. Those who have used and enjoyed 1000 California Place Names through the decades will be glad to know that 1500 California Place Names is not only bigger but better. This handbook focuses on two sorts of names: those that are well-known as destinations or geographical features of the state, such as La Jolla, Tahoe, and Alcatraz, and those that demand attention because of their problematic origins, whether Spanish like Bodega and Chamisal or Native American like Aguanga and Siskiyou. Names of the major Indian tribes of California are included, since some of them have been directly adapted as place names and others have been the source of a variety of names. Bright incorporates his own recent research and that of other linguists and local historians, giving us a much deeper appreciation of the tangled ancestry many California names embody. Featuring phonetic pronunciations for all the Golden State's tongue-twisting names, this is in effect a brand new book, indispensable to California residents and visitors alike.
Author: Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: William Bright
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520212718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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This handbook focuses on two sorts of names: those that are well-known as destinations or as geographical features of the state, and those that demand attention because of their problematic origins, whether Spanish, such as Bodega and Chamisal, or Native American, like Aguanga and Siskiyou. Map.
Author: Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Author: Erwin G. Gudde
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520266196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.
Author: Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Susan Gillman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226819655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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The story of the “American Mediterranean,” both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America’s Mediterranean. Almost a century later, Southern California was hailed as “Our Mediterranean, Our Italy!” Although “American Mediterranean” is not a household phrase in the United States today, it once circulated widely in French, Spanish, and English as a term of art and folk idiom. In this book, Susan Gillman asks what cultural work is done by this kind of unsystematic, open-ended comparative thinking. American Mediterraneans tracks two centuries of this geohistorical concept, from Humboldt in the early 1800s, to writers of the 1890s reflecting on the Pacific world of the California coast, to writers of the 1930s and 40s speculating on the political past and future of the Caribbean. Following the term through its travels across disciplines and borders, American Mediterraneans reveals a little-known racialized history, one that paradoxically appealed to a range of race-neutral ideas and ideals.
Author: Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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