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ing the book straight through could therefore result in some tonal whiplash. Organization aside, Critical Toponymies works well as a textbook. The classic papers, in addition to recent work that highlights current approaches, provides a solid resource for the student not yet familiarized with the literature. The clarity of the onomastic examples sets the book up rather well for use in a course that introduces critical theory and problematizing power relations. While these are complicated concepts to grasp, the illustration of such concepts through place-names could be a very useful tool for an educator. The book could also play a role in a course that traces the history of onomastics – as well, of course, as one explicitly about naming practices.