Names on the Land A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States

Name: Names on the Land A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
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ISBN: 9781590172735

ISBN-10: 1590172736

ISBN-13: 9781590172735

Edition: 2008

Authors: George R. Stewart, Matt Weiland

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This beloved classic about place-naming in the United States was written during World War II in a conscious effort to pay tribute to the heritage of the nation’s peoples. George R. Stewart’s love of the surprising story, and his focus not just on language but on how people interact with their environment, make Names on the Land a unique window into the history and sociology of America. From the first European names in what would later be the United States–Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortez’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red river Rio Colorado–to New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden; the French and the Russians; border ruffians and Boston Brahmins: Names on the Land…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction


Foreword to the Revised and Enlarged Edition



Of what is attempted in this book



Of the naming that was before history



How the first Spaniards gave names



Of English, Spanish, and French in the same years



Of Charles Stuart and some others



How the Massachusetts General Court dealt with names



How the people began to give names



How names were symbols of empire



The History of New York



Of the French



How the Spaniards named another kingdom



When King Charles came to his own



How the names became more English and less English



How they took the names into the mountains



Of the years when they fought the French



Of a pause between wars



How the Leather-Jackets rode north



Of new names in the Land



America discovers Columbus



Of the last voyagers



Of ancient glory renewed



Of the new nation



Yankee flavor



How they took over the French names



Of Mr. Jefferson's western lands



Of the dry country and the farther mountains



Of a new generation



Of patterns for street-names



Flavor of the New South



Melodrama in the Forties



"Ye say they all have passed away..."



How the tradition of the States was broken



Of the cities of the Fifties



How they fought again



How Congress took over



Of the last flourishing



"Change the name of Arkansas-Never!"



Of rules and regulations



Flavor of California



Of modern methods



Cause celebre



Unfinished business



Heritage



Alaska



Hawaii



Current affairs-1944-1958


Author's Postscript


Notes and references


Index