This book presents research on geographical naming on land and sea from a wide range of standpoints on: theory and concepts, case studies and education. Space a

Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that in

Far from being objective and static pointers, place-names are dynamic tools of inscription used to (re)shape both our surroundings and our identities. This book

While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This b

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 p