Author: Joseph P. Schwada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : House marks
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Carl Baehr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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"Milwaukee's eight hundred street names offer fascinating glimpses into the city's rich heritage; from French fur traders to Yankee speculators, from wealthy German tycoons of the Gay Nineties to African American leaders of the 20th century. In this unique book you can read about Tom Mason, who started a war that gave the Upper Peninsula to Michigan; the bitter six-year religious controversy sparked by the naming of Santa Monica Boulevard; "Uncle Jerry" Rusk, the man who gave the order that caused the "Bay View Massacre;" Willaim Merrill's ill-fated diamond mind in Waukesha County!

Author: Solomon Goodman
Publisher:
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Category : Street addresses
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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"Some of the items listed in sections I and II are marked as being available in the New York Public Library (NYPL) ; Municipal Reference Library of New York City (MRL-NYC) ; and the Library of Congress (LofC), together with the class marks."--Page I.

Author: Wisconsin
Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 3144

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Author: Carl Nicolaus Joseph Matthias Caspar
Publisher:
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Category : Milwaukee (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Wisconsin
Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1622

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Author: Jani Vuolteenaho
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351947265
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. The contributors guide the reader into struggles over toponymy in a multitude of national and local contexts across Europe, North America, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. In a ground-breaking and multidisciplinary fashion, this volume illuminates the key role of naming in the colonial silencing of indigenous cultures, canonization of nationalistic ideals into nomenclature of cities and topographic maps, as well as the formation of more or less fluid forms of postcolonial and urban identities.

Author: Wisconsin
Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1072

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Author: Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1394188293
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that involve collective and individual relationships to space, whether functional or imaginary, as well as the identities related to them. Name traces also differ together with their inscription within landscapes and history. Names constitute a heritage, they bear witness, they mark places and thus contribute to the foundation of territories. Beyond place names, place naming reveals the functions and uses of names, but also the contradictory meanings that society bestows on them. With this framework in mind, that of critical toponymy, The Politics of Place Naming considers different points of view when studying place naming. These vary from linguistics to political and cultural geography, via history, anthropology, cartography, urban planning, digital humanities, subaltern studies and many other disciplines. This book honors this transversality by taking such studies into account in its examination of place naming.

Author: Wisconsin Historical Records Survey
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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