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Names On The Land

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Author : George R. Stewart
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2008-07-01

Names On The Land written by George R. Stewart and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with History categories.

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 intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life. Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t. Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.

Names On The Land

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Author : George R. Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945

Names On The Land written by George R. Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Names, Geographical categories.

Names Upon The Land

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Author : Judy Wollangk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Names Upon The Land written by Judy Wollangk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Land grants categories.

Names On The Land

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Author : George Rippey Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958

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Ancient Place Names In The Holy Land

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Author : Yoel Elitsur
language : en
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Release Date : 2004

Ancient Place Names In The Holy Land written by Yoel Elitsur and has been published by Eisenbrauns this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

That many ancient toponyms in the Holy Land have survived for thousands of years, right up to modern times, is a remarkable and unique phenomenon, unparalleled in neighboring countries, such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, or Asia Minor. Preserved toponymy provides a basis for research in the historical geography of the country and is also of major importance for studies in the history of Hebrew and Aramaic, being a kind of ancient "recording" of an archaic linguistic inventory. In addition, it has many implications for a wide variety of other scholarly fields, such as Bible studies, Rabbinics, Qumran and Samaritan studies, early Christianity, Arabic and Islam. This reserve of preserved place-names is therefore frequently consulted and used by scholars for their purposes. Surprisingly, however, despite the importance of this subject, there have been very few attempts to "put things in order," and for many years there have been no rules that would help to understand the changes that occur in toponyms. Accordingly, the prevailing situation in the field of historical geography is one of near-anarchy; lacking hard and fast rules, scholars could find support for their identification of an ancient toponym in any somewhat similar Arabic name. In order to break this vicious circle of conjectures founded on dubious linguistic assumptions, producing "preservation laws" themselves provide an alleged basis for historical identification, and so on, Elitzur has tried, first and foremost, to lay down objective criteria for the selection of positive identifications. On this basis, he has built up a corpus of 177 toponyms representing positive or almost-positive identifications, upon which this study is based. Sixty of these toponyms are then reviewed in depth, tracing their documentation in all languages, throughout recorded history; in the process, the author has tried to locate and analyze whatever changes occurred and when. The linguistic conclusions from the material follow, arranged according to the standard layout of grammar books. Innovative conclusions and ideas in the context of historical geography emerged in the course of the study are listed alphabetically in the last part of the volume.

Scottish Land Names

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Author : Sir Herbert Maxwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

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Scottish Land Names

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Author : Herbert Maxwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991-09-01

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Scottish Land Names

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Author : Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell (Bart )
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-04-27

Scottish Land Names written by Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell (Bart ) and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-27 with categories.

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Names On The Land By George Rippey Stewart

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945

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Scottish Land Names

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Author : Herbert Maxwell
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-09

Scottish Land Names written by Herbert Maxwell and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.

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