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

Zusammenfassung 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. This title considers the efforts to computerize mapmaking! standardize geographic names! and respond to public concern over ethnically offensive appellations.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Monmonier, Mark S. Monmonier, Monmonier Mark
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9780226534664
• ISBN: 978-0-226-53466-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historical Geography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Cartography, map-making & projections, History of the Americas, Cartography, map-making and projections, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, Place names and gazetteers