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020			_a9781524748920 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781524748937 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aF128.3 _b.J45 2021
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100	1		_aJelly-Schapiro, Joshua, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNames of New York : _bdiscovering the city's past, present, and future through its place-names / _cJoshua Jelly-Schapiro.
246	3	0	_aDiscovering the city's past, present, and future through its place-names
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c2021.
300			_a243 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes indexes.
520			_a"From the coauthor of the award-winning Nonstop Metropolis--a short, fascinating journey into the past, present, and future of New York City through its place names and the stories they contain. Drawing on his background in cultural geography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro excavates the wealth of stories that are embedded in New York City's place names and uses them to illuminate the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place. He traces the ways that the native Lenape, the Dutch settlers, the British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the island and continue to reshape it. He explores how many New York place names have accrued iconic significance far beyond the city's boundaries; for example, "Brooklyn" is the name of a notorious street gang in Haiti, of restaurants from New Zealand to Paris, and of thousands of children (it is among the top fifty girl's names in America). He interviews the last living speaker of Lenape, tours the harbor's many "out-islands" with a tugboat captain, and meets the linguists at the Endangered Language Alliance who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York. And he makes clear that as immigrants and marginalized groups continue to find new ways to make the city's streets and boroughs their own, the names that adhere to the landscape function not only as portals to explore the past but as a means to reimagine what's possible now"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aNames, Geographical _zNew York (State) _zNew York.
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _xHistorical geography.
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aJelly-Schapiro, Joshua. _tNames of New York _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Pantheon Books, 2021 _z9781524748937 _w(DLC) 2020037288
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