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

"The author is an able populariser of academic geography, and an expert guide to the bureaucratic, legal and political hierarchies that determine how places acquire, change and lose their names....The author is clearly blessed with a good sense of humor, which, sadly, he partially suppresses, presumably in deference to the stiff-necked culture of American officialdom and academe."Monmonier, Mark S. is the author of 'From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, And Inflame', published 2006 under ISBN 9780226534657 and ISBN 0226534650.