From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame

Name: From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
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ISBN: 9780226534664

ISBN-10: 0226534669

ISBN-13: 9780226534664

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark Monmonier

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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. But later, when sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, 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…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.792



Preface



Naming and Mapping



The Quest for a National Gazetteer



Purging Pejoratives



Body Parts and Risquï¿½ Toponyms



Going Native



Your Toponym or Mine?



Erasures



Inscriptions Epilogue: Naming Rites


Notes


Bibliography


Index