Author: James Wendell Phillips
Publisher:
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Edmond Stephen Meany
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Doug Brokenshire
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870045622
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: EDMOND STEPHEN. MEANY
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ISBN: 9781033122952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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: John W. Van Cott
Publisher: University of Utah Press
ISBN: 9780874803457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Utah toponyms, or place names. Where are they? What istheir history? Their importance? Over thousand toponyms are listed alphabetically, marking the passagesof peoples and cultures from earliest times.

Author: Allan Richardson
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774820489
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Place names can lead us on fascinating journeys into other cultures. They convey a people’s relationship to the land, their sense of place. For indigenous peoples, place names can also be central to the revival of endangered languages. This book takes readers on an exciting voyage into the history, language, and culture of the Nooksack Tribe of Washington State and southern British Columbia. Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway trace the richness and strength of the Nooksack people’s connection to the land by documenting more than 150 places named by elders and mentioned in key historical texts. Descriptions of Nooksack history and naming patterns – combined with maps, photographs, and detailed linguistic analyses – give life to a nearly extinct language and illuminate the intertwined relationships of place, culture, language, and identity.

Author: Mark Monmonier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226534642
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily accepted any local preference for place names, prizing accurate representation over standards of decorum. Thus, summits such as Squaw Tit—which towered above valleys in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California—found their way into the cartographic annals. Later, when sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, town names like Jap Valley, California, were erased from the national and cultural map forever. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow probes this little-known chapter in American cartographic history by considering the intersecting efforts to computerize mapmaking, standardize geographic names, and respond to public concern over ethnically offensive appellations. Interweaving cartographic history with tales of politics and power, celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier locates his story within the past and present struggles of mapmakers to create an orderly process for naming that avoids confusion, preserves history, and serves different political aims. Anchored by a diverse selection of naming controversies—in the United States, Canada, Cyprus, Israel, Palestine, and Antarctica; on the ocean floor and the surface of the moon; and in other parts of our solar system—From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow richly reveals the map’s role as a mediated portrait of the cultural landscape. And unlike other books that consider place names, this is the first to reflect on both the real cartographic and political imbroglios they engender. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow is Mark Monmonier at his finest: a learned analysis of a timely and controversial subject rendered accessible—and even entertaining—to the general reader.

Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names
Publisher:
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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