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Monmonier, Mark S.
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow :
how maps name, claim, and inflame /
Mark Monmonier.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
xiv, 215 p. :
ill., maps ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199) and index.
Naming and mapping -- The quest for a national gazetteer -- Purging pejoratives -- Body parts and risqué toponyms -- Going native -- Your toponym or mine? -- Erasures -- Inscriptions -- Epilogue : naming rites.
Names, Geographical
United States
Etymology.
Names, Geographical
Etymology.
Toponymy.
English language
Etymology
Names.
English language
Obscene words.
Words, Obscene.
Nonfiction.
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