Traces of History in the Names of Places
Author | : Flavell Edmunds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Flavell Edmunds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Flavell Edmunds |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781371821319 |
Author | : Flavell Edmunds |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2020-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3846052663 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author | : John Moss |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526722879 |
The origin of the names of many English towns, hamlets and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many are even older and are derived from Roman placenames. Some hark back to the Vikings who invaded our shores and established settlements in the eighth and ninth centuries. Most began as simple descriptions of the location; some identified its founder, marked territorial limits, or gave tribal people a sense of their place in the grand scheme of things. Whatever their derivation, placenames are inextricably bound up in our history and they tell us a great deal about the place where we live.
Author | : Eusèbe Salverte |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Names |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George R. Stewart |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1590172736 |
George R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life. Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t. Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.
Author | : Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : L. H. Mordacque |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752582502 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Author | : George Redmonds |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781852855079 |
Fascinating detective stories into the connections between names and related subjects.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 956 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
ISBN | : |