Abstract
Naming the City: the Uses and Stakes Involved in the Place Name «Manila» in the 19th Century The aim of this article is to apply research paths opened up by the scientific programme «city Words» to the study of Manila as a place name during the 19th century. A body of texts composed of administrative and tax sources, travel stories, literary works and the publication sites of books put out in Manila makes it possible to describe the complex changes in the uses of the place : name and the spatial reality to which it referred. This study also shows that the changes reflect more than simply the physical1 transformations of the, agglomeration and reveals the stakes underlying the lexical evolution.
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