A Dictionary of English Surnames
A Dictionary of English Surnames

Author: P. H. Reaney

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006-02-27

Total Pages: 3618

ISBN-13: 1134933282

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This classic dictionary answers questions such as these and explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an interest in names and their history.

A Dictionary of London Place-Names
A Dictionary of London Place-Names

Author: A. D. Mills

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-03-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780199566785

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A unique gazetteer that clearly explains the fascinating origins and meanings behind the names of over 1,700 places, streets, and areas within the English capital, including the Greater London Boroughs. It also features maps, an extended introduction on the development of these place-names, a detailed glossary, and recommended web links.

Placing Names
Placing Names

Author: Merrick Lex Berman

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2016-08-08

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0253022568

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Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.

Finding People in Early Greece
Finding People in Early Greece

Author: Carol G. Thomas

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0826264662

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"Explores the marriage of historically oriented scholarship and scientific developments in the study of preclassical Greek history. Two figures from preclassical Greece are examined: Jason and the voyage of the Argo, from the Age of Heroes, and Hesiod, who lived during the Age of Revolution"--Provided by publisher.