Names of New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Names of New York write by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Names of New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods. Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York. As recent arrivals continue to find new ways to make New York’s neighborhoods their own, the names that stick to the city’s streets function not only as portals to explore the past but also as a means to reimagine what is possible now.
New York Geographic Names
New York Geographic Names - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New York Geographic Names write by Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names. This book was released on 1981. New York Geographic Names available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Manhattan to Minisink
Manhattan to Minisink - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manhattan to Minisink write by Robert S. Grumet. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Manhattan to Minisink available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated. Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the region’s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-sounding, place names. Grumet divides his encyclopedic entries into two parts. The first comprises an alphabetical listing of nearly 340 Indian place names preserved in colonial records, located by county and state. Each entry includes the name’s language of origin, if known, and a brief discussion of its etymology, including its earliest known occurrence in written records, the history of its appearance on maps, and the name’s current status. The book’s second section presents nearly 200 place names that, though widely believed to be of Indian origin, are “imports, inventions, invocations, or impostors.” Mistranslations are abundant in place names, and Grumet has ferreted out the mistakes and deceptions among home-grown colonial etymologies that New Yorkers have accepted for centuries. Complete with a concise history of Greater New York, a discussion of the region’s naming practices, a useful timeline, and four maps, this is an invaluable resource both for scholars and for readers who want a more intimate knowledge of the place where they live or visit.
Native American Place Names of Maine, New Hampshire, & Vermont
Native American Place Names of Maine, New Hampshire, & Vermont - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native American Place Names of Maine, New Hampshire, & Vermont write by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow. This book was released on 2001. Native American Place Names of Maine, New Hampshire, & Vermont available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The Abanki confederacy of tribes of northern New England gets their name from the word Wabunaki meaning "land or country of the east" or "morning land."
Classical Place Names in New York State
Classical Place Names in New York State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Place Names in New York State write by William R. Farrell. This book was released on 2002. Classical Place Names in New York State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores connectons between contemporary New York State and its history, language and mythological heritage.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
