Download or read book Traces of History in the Names of Places written by Flavell Edmunds and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Traces of History in the Names of Places with a Vocabulary of the Roots out of which Names of Places in England and Wales are formed written by Flavell Edmunds and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Download or read book A History of English Place Names and Where They Came From written by John Moss and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of the names of many English towns, hamlets and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many are even older and are derived from Roman placenames. Some hark back to the Vikings who invaded our shores and established settlements in the eighth and ninth centuries. Most began as simple descriptions of the location; some identified its founder, marked territorial limits, or gave tribal people a sense of their place in the grand scheme of things. Whatever their derivation, placenames are inextricably bound up in our history and they tell us a great deal about the place where we live.

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Download or read book Names on the Land written by George R. Stewart and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book History of the Names of Men Nations and Places written by L. H. Mordacque and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.

Download or read book Names and History written by George Redmonds and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating detective stories into the connections between names and related subjects.

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Download or read book Geographical Illustrations of Scottish History Containing the Names of Places Mentioned in Chronicles Histories Records Etc with Corrections of the Corrupted Names and Explanations of the Difficult and Disputed Points in the Historical Geography of Scotland the Names Being Alphabetically Arranged with References to Their Position in the Historical Map of Scotland which Accompanies the Work Together with a Compendious Chronology of the Battles to the Year 1603 written by David MacPherson and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Names on the land written by George Rippey Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wealth of historical and anecdotal detail, the author traces the origins and evolution of the principal place-names in the United States, and every American should find fascination in the discovery of the strange circumstances by which names long familiar came into being.

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