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Off the map

the curious histories of place-names

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English
Pages
200

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Off the map: the curious histories of place-names
1997, Kodansha International
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New York

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1 WELCOME TO TERRA INCOGNITA 3
2 WHEN ETHNIC, CULTURAL, AND POLITICAL BOUNDARIES DON'T ALIGN 19
3 THE WAR BETWEEN DISTORTION AND ACCURACY
"The Ants Along the Niger Were as Big as Mastiffs" 35
4 WHY SOME NAMES SEEM TO MISS THE TARGET 69
5 US VERSUS THEM
Place-Names Become Pejorative 85
6 THE WORLD IS MY OYSTER
Names as Claims 99
7 WHEN LANGUAGES COLLIDE 117
8 MULTIPLE NAMES MEAN CONFUSION
AND CONTENTION 137
9 PRIMAL NAMES
The Pictorial Globe 155
10 TOPONYMY TURNS TREACHEROUS
The Tangled Roots of Place-Names 171
11 A TOUCH OF SERENDIPITY 183.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
910/.3
Library of Congress
G104.5 .N45 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 200 p. :
Number of pages
200

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Open Library
OL679016M
Internet Archive
offmapcurioushis00nels
ISBN 10
1568361742
LCCN
97025499
Library Thing
20930
Goodreads
1268031

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