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| Author | : Merrick Lex Berman |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2016-08-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0253022568 |
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Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.
| Author | : Helen S. Carlson |
| Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
| Total Pages | : 633 |
| Release | : 1974-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0874174031 |
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Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. Out of print for some years, the book was reprinted in 1999.
| Author | : Clare D'Artois Leeper |
| Publisher | : LSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2012-10-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807147397 |
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From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mardi Gras Bayou in between, avid writer Clare D Artois Leeper offers her own alphabet of places in Louisiana, both past and present. Louisiana Place Names includes 893 entries that reveal Leeper s distinct view of the state s history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom result in an entertaining guide to Louisiana s place name lore.
| Author | : George R. Stewart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : Names, Geographical |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Caroline Taggart |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2011-06-08 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1409034984 |
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Take a journey down winding lanes and Roman roads in this witty and informative guide to the meanings behind the names of England's towns and villages. From Celtic farmers to Norman conquerors, right up to the Industrial Revolution, deciphering our place names reveals how generations of our ancestors lived, worked, travelled and worshipped, and how their influence has shaped our landscape. From the most ancient sacred sites to towns that take their names from stories of giants and knights, learn how Roman garrisons became our great cities, and discover how a meeting of the roads could become a thriving market town. Region by region, Caroline Taggart uncovers hidden meanings to reveal a patchwork of tall tales and ancient legends that collectively tells the story of how we made England.
| Author | : Walter Romig |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 718 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Gazetteers |
| ISBN | : 9780814318386 |
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From Aabec in Antrim County to Zutphen in Ottawa County, from Hell to Hooker, Michigan Place Names is a compendium of information on the origins of the state's geographical names. With alphabetically arranged thumb-nail sketches, Walter Romig introduces readers to a host of colorful personalities and episodes which have achieved notoriety, though sometimes shortlived, by devising or lending their names to the state's settlements. Romig spent more than ten years researching and documenting the entries to which he added an extensive bibliography of sources and an index of the personal names used in the text. For the curious, the librarian, the genealogist, or the historian, his book is an indispensable resource. Michigan Place Names is another "Michigan classic" reissued as a Great Lakes Book.
| Author | : Mary Kawena Pukui |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1976-12-01 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780824805241 |
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How many place names are there in the Hawaiian Islands? Even a rough estimate is impossible. Hawaiians named taro patches, rocks, trees, canoe landings, resting places in the forests, and the tiniest spots where miraculous events are believed to have taken place. And place names are far from static--names are constantly being given to new houses and buildings, streets and towns, and old names are replaced by new ones. It is essential, then, to record the names and the lore associated with them now, while Hawaiians are here to lend us their knowledge. And, whatever the fate of the Hawaiian language, the place names will endure. The first edition of Place Names of Hawaii contained only 1,125 entries. The coverage is expanded in the present edition to include about 4,000 entries, including names in English. Also, approximately 800 more names are included in this volume than appear in the second edition of the Atlas of Hawaii.
| Author | : Erwin G. Gudde |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520266196 |
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This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.
| Author | : Robert Julyan |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780826316899 |
Download The Place Names of New Mexico Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.
| Author | : John W. Van Cott |
| Publisher | : University of Utah Press |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780874803457 |
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Utah toponyms, or place names. Where are they? What istheir history? Their importance? Over thousand toponyms are listed alphabetically, marking the passagesof peoples and cultures from earliest times.
