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Names on the land : a historical account of place-naming in the United States /
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 intima...
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New York :
Random House,
[1945]
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Table of Contents:
- Of what was attempted in this book
- Of the naming that was before history
- How the first Spaniards gave names
- Of the English, Spanish, and French in the same years
- Of Charles Stuart and some others
- How the Massachusetts General Court dealt with names
- How the people began to give names
- How names were symbols of empire
- The history of New York
- Of the French
- How the Spaniards named another kingdom
- When King Charles came to his own
- How the names became more English and less English
- How they took the names into the mountains
- Of the years when they fought the French
- Of a pause between wars
- How the Leather-Jackets rode north
- Of new names in the land
- America discovers Columbus
- Of the last voyagers
- Of ancient glory renewed
- Of the new nation
- Yankee flavor
- How they took over the French names
- Of Mr. Jefferson's western lands
- Of the dry country and the farther mountains
- Of a new generation
- Of patterns for street-names
- Flavor of the New South
- Melodrama in the forties
- "Ye say they all have passed away ..."
- How the tradition of the states was broken
- Of the cities of the fifties
- How they fought again
- How congress took over
- Of the last flourishing
- "Change the name of Arkansas
- never!
- Of rules and regulations
- Flavor of California
- Of modern methods
- Cause célèbre
- Unfinished business
- Heritage.