From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow [electronic resource] : how maps name, claim, and inflame / Mark Monmonier.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 215 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 910/.01/4 22
- G105 .M66 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.