From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow how maps name, claim, and inflame /

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow how maps name, claim, and inflame /

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 pla...

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Main Author: Monmonier, Mark S.
Format: Electronic Online Resource eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Names, Geographical > United States > Etymology.
Names, Geographical > Etymology.
Toponymy.
English language > Etymology > Names.
English language > Obscene words.
Words, Obscene.
mapmaking, place names, vulgarity, derogatory, racial slurs, squaw tit, nevada, outhouse draw, utah, mollys nipple, alaska, brassiere hills, political correctness, sanctions, jap valley, scatalogy, race, ethnicity, cartography, geography, standardization, history, politics, nonfiction, antarctica, palestine, israel, cyprus, canada, united states, toponymy, obscene, pejoratives, erasure, inscription.
Online Access:Ebook Central Academic Complete
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