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Title Names of New York : discovering the city's past, present, and future through its place-names / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
Publisher New York : Pantheon Books, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description 243 pages ; 20 cm
Edition First edition.


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 SI-Upper Level  974.71 JELL Nearby on shelf  30661912224394 10-19-21  AVAILABLE
 SM-Upper Level  974.71 JELL  30660913222811 12-15-21  AVAILABLE
 SN-Main Room  974.71 JELL  30663911908662 07-14-21  AVAILABLE
Note 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.
Historical geography.
Names, Geographical.
New York (N.Y.) -- Historical geography.
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
Genre History.
Other title Discovering the city's past, present, and future through its place-names
ISBN 9781524748920
1524748927