![]() From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame Mark Monmonier REFERENCE 2006 HARD COVER 215 PAGES
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.
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