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Loading... Place names of the Avalon Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland (1971)4 | None | 3,410,100 | None | None | This book looks at history through a broad, systematic study of the place names of one of the first European settlements in North America. It is rich in "ations from old literature, and it delves into the origins of such evocative names as Butter Pot, Burst Heart Hill, and Mistaken Point. The first nine chapters form an historical and analytical introduction. This section is followed by two bibliographies -- one of maps, the other of texts -- and a gazetteer and index which lists the situation, description, chronological citations, and other relevant data for each place name. This construction enables Dr. Seary to evaluate the source materials, cartographic and textual, then relate them to phases of discovery, settlement, and social history, and to examine in detail the more significant names and name-groups within the historical context, without loss of simplicity or speed in the mechanics of lexicographic reference. This lucidly constructed, elegantly presented work lays a methodological foundation not only for the study of Newfoundland toponymy but for that of other parts of North America as well. It is not confined to the narrow field of toponymy, but it is a useful contribution to the human geography and local history of Newfoundland, and to the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century cartography of the province. The text is enhanced by distribution maps showing place names of different linguistic or ethnic origin and by facsimile reproductions of two seventeenth century maps.… (more) |
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Preface This study is a small part of a project conceived some twelve years ago by members of the Department of English Language and Literature of the Memorial University of Newfoundland in which the speech, dialect vocabulary, place names, and folklore of Newfoundland were to be subjected to a scrutiny worthy of their heritage not only for Newfoundland but for the English-speaking world at large; for Newfoundland has preserved uniquely and almost intact until the present generation specimens, quantities, and characteristics of speech, vocabulary, nomenclature, and folklore from the cultures of which it has been compounded since the early years of the sixteenth century, though none has been studied with the rigour that contemporary scholarship demands. | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions This book looks at history through a broad, systematic study of the place names of one of the first European settlements in North America. It is rich in "ations from old literature, and it delves into the origins of such evocative names as Butter Pot, Burst Heart Hill, and Mistaken Point. The first nine chapters form an historical and analytical introduction. This section is followed by two bibliographies -- one of maps, the other of texts -- and a gazetteer and index which lists the situation, description, chronological citations, and other relevant data for each place name. This construction enables Dr. Seary to evaluate the source materials, cartographic and textual, then relate them to phases of discovery, settlement, and social history, and to examine in detail the more significant names and name-groups within the historical context, without loss of simplicity or speed in the mechanics of lexicographic reference. This lucidly constructed, elegantly presented work lays a methodological foundation not only for the study of Newfoundland toponymy but for that of other parts of North America as well. It is not confined to the narrow field of toponymy, but it is a useful contribution to the human geography and local history of Newfoundland, and to the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century cartography of the province. The text is enhanced by distribution maps showing place names of different linguistic or ethnic origin and by facsimile reproductions of two seventeenth century maps. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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