
Names on the Land A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
by Stewart, George R.; Weiland, Matt-
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Summary
Author Biography
Robert Krulwich is an American radio and television journalist whose specialty is explaining complex topics in depth. He has worked as a full-time employee of CBS, National Public Radio, and Pacifica. He has done assignment pieces for ABC's "Nightline" and "World News Tonight," as well as PBS's "Frontline," "NOVA," and "NOW with Bill Moyers." TV Guide called him "the most inventive network reporter in television"
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. ix |
Foreword to the Revised and Enlarged Edition | p. xvii |
Of what is attempted in this book | p. 3 |
Of the naming that was before history | p. 4 |
How the first Spaniards gave names | p. 11 |
Of English, Spanish, and French in the same years | p. 20 |
Of Charles Stuart and some others | p. 35 |
How the Massachusetts General Court dealt with names | p. 44 |
How the people began to give names | p. 57 |
How names were symbols of empire | p. 67 |
The History of New York | p. 78 |
Of the French | p. 82 |
How the Spaniards named another kingdom | p. 95 |
When King Charles came to his own | p. 97 |
How the names became more English and less English | p. 108 |
How they took the names into the mountains | p. 126 |
Of the years when they fought the French | p. 135 |
Of a pause between wars | p. 149 |
How the Leather-Jackets rode north | p. 156 |
Of new names in the Land | p. 162 |
America discovers Columbus | p. 169 |
Of the last voyagers | p. 174 |
Of ancient glory renewed | p. 181 |
Of the new nation | p. 188 |
Yankee flavor | p. 205 |
How they took over the French names | p. 209 |
Of Mr. Jefferson's western lands | p. 214 |
Of the dry country and the farther mountains | p. 219 |
Of a new generation | p. 226 |
Of patterns for street-names | p. 244 |
Flavor of the New South | p. 250 |
Melodrama in the Forties | p. 252 |
"Ye say they all have passed away..." | p. 270 |
How the tradition of the States was broken | p. 285 |
Of the cities of the Fifties | p. 289 |
How they fought again | p. 295 |
How Congress took over | p. 301 |
Of the last flourishing | p. 314 |
"Change the name of Arkansas-Never!" | p. 335 |
Of rules and regulations | p. 340 |
Flavor of California | p. 346 |
Of modern methods | p. 353 |
Cause celebre | p. 364 |
Unfinished business | p. 372 |
Heritage | p. 381 |
Alaska | p. 386 |
Hawaii | p. 412 |
Current affairs-1944-1958 | p. 423 |
Author's Postscript | p. 439 |
Notes and references | p. 442 |
Index | p. 483 |
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