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Includes index. |
Contents |
The power of names -- The names before -- Navigators and duyvils and English and kings (on colonial names) -- The Americans -- Leaving shore : city of islands -- Brokers and powers (and neighborhoods, too) -- Honors and sounds -- Making place : names of the future. |
Summary |
"Drawing on his background in cultural geography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro excavates the wealth of stories that are embedded in New York City's place names and uses them to illuminate the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place. He traces the ways that the native Lenape, the Dutch settlers, the British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the island and continue to reshape it."-- Provided by publisher. |
Other edition |
Online version: Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua. Names of New York. New York : Pantheon Books, 2021 9781524748937 |
Subject |
Names, Geographical -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Historical geography.
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Names, Geographical.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Historical geography.
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New York (N.Y.) -- History.
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Genre |
History.
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Other title |
Discovering the city's past, present, and future through its place-names |
ISBN |
9781524748920
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1524748927
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