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The Great guano rush : entrepreneurs and American overseas expansion / Jimmy M. Skaggs

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 1995Description: 334 pages : maps; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0-312-12339-6
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • IRL 631.866 SKA, GvS 631.866 SKA
Summary: Guano, bird droppings, was the nineteenth century's most important fertilizer, and in 1856 Congress, believing that American farmers were being gouged on guano sales by foreign monopolists, authorized U. S. citizens to claim and exploit guano-rich islands around the world. The legacy of this decision is a strange group of America "appurtenances," ranging from Haiti to the central Pacific.
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For Information: St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York. N. Y. 10010 Includes index and bibliography

Guano, bird droppings, was the nineteenth century's most important fertilizer, and in 1856 Congress, believing that American farmers were being gouged on guano sales by foreign monopolists, authorized U. S. citizens to claim and exploit guano-rich islands around the world. The legacy of this decision is a strange group of America "appurtenances," ranging from Haiti to the central Pacific.

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