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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
how maps name, claim, and inflame
By Monmonier, Mark S.
- ISBN
- 978-0-22653-465-7
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2006
Why did India block distribution of an updated version of Microsoft�s Windows 95? Is it Mount McKinley or Mount Denali, Hawaii or Hawai�i? Monmonier (geography, Syracuse Univ.;Spying with Maps ) answers these questions and more as he reveals in a nontechnical manner the impact of governmental policy and political correctness upon modern cartography. The reader is introduced to the agencies responsible for proposing and approving name changes and spellings, among the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
