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

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
Mark Monmonier
REFERENCE •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 215 PAGES

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Monmonier enlightens, illuminates and entertains in this deft analysis of cartography. He chooses bawdy, offensive and otherwise provocative names as a lens to look at the politics and history of place names and naming controversies, particularly in early 20th century America, where miners and other anti-authoritarium types littered maps with some whoppers (body parts along with racial and ethnic slurs). He also uses examples from Antarctica, Turkey and the Middle East.  (MAP26, $25.00)

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