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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
Mark Monmonier
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Description for From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
Hardcover. Interweaving cartographic history with tales of politics and power, this work is located within the struggles of mapmakers to create an orderly process for naming that avoids confusion, preserves history, and serves different political aims. It reveals the map's role as a mediated portrait of the cultural landscape. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 halftones, 17 line drawings. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 184 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
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 place names, prizing accurate representation over standards of decorum. Thus, summits such as Squaw Tit - which towered above valleys in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California - found their way into the cartographic annals. Later, when sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, town names like Jap Valley, California, were erased from ... Read more
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 place names, prizing accurate representation over standards of decorum. Thus, summits such as Squaw Tit - which towered above valleys in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California - found their way into the cartographic annals. Later, when sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, town names like Jap Valley, California, were erased from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226534657
SKU
V9780226534657
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About Mark Monmonier
Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the author of, among other titles, Spying with Maps - the winner of the 2002 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography - and, most recently, Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
"From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow is a wonderfully interesting tome that enlightens as it delights the reader with superb examples of all types. In addition to being a very insightful historical, political, cultural, and cartographic analysis, it provides important insights into how societal values evolve and change. There is really no book on this topic of comparable quality or ... Read more