From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
Subtitle: how maps name, claim, and inflame
By: Mark Monmonier.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Names, Geographical -- United States -- Etymology.; Names, Geographical -- Etymology.; Toponymy.; English language -- Etymology -- Names.; English language -- Obscene words.; Words, Obscene.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.      ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Naming and mapping; title: The quest for a national gazetteer; title: Purging pejoratives; title: Body parts and risque toponyms; title: Going native; title: Your toponym or mine?; title: Erasures; title: Inscriptions; title: Epilogue : naming rites.