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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow : how maps name, claim, and inflame
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- Creator
- Mark Monmonier
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226534650, 9780226534657, 1282094262, 9786612094262, 0226534642
- OCLC
- ocm60557388, ocn476228450, on1135584429
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-199).
- 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