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Book Synopsis Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World by : Gregory T. Cushman
Download or read book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World written by Gregory T. Cushman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.
Book Synopsis The Guano Islands of Peru by : Pan American Union
Download or read book The Guano Islands of Peru written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Guano Rush by : Jimmy M. Skaggs
Download or read book The Great Guano Rush written by Jimmy M. Skaggs and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text describes the little-known history of the earliest example of American overseas expansion. Guano was the 19th century's most important fertilizer and in 1856 Congress, believing that American farmers were being gouged on guano sales by foreign monopolists, authorized US citizens to claim and exploit unowned guano-rich islands around the world. The legacy of this decision is a strange group of American appurtenances, ranging from Haiti to the central Pacific and with a highly diverse subsequent history, from the notorious near-slavery of guano-miners on Navassa Island to the contemporary issue of the Johnston Atoll chemical weapon destruction plant.
Download or read book The Guano Islands of Peru written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Hide an Empire by : Daniel Immerwahr
Download or read book How to Hide an Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Book Synopsis More Precious Than Gold by : Dave Hollett
Download or read book More Precious Than Gold written by Dave Hollett and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth-century Conquistadors, led by Pizarro, came to Peru for three reasons--God, gold, and glory, but after the initial glory of their conquest they tended to concentrate on gold, rather than God. Direct colonial rule by Spain lasted for almost three hundred years, only ending in 1826, when the last Spanish flag was hauled down from the battlements of Real Felipe Fortress. However, just a few short years after Peru had declared its independence from Spain, the attention of some people in Lima began to focus on a potential source of untold wealth that was to prove more precious than gold. This was guano which, in its greatest concentration, was found on the diminutive Chincha Islands that lie just off the Peruvian coast, some seventy miles south of Callao. This book covers the story of this international guano trade. It outlines the fate of the unfortunates recruited to cut and load the guano. It also gives full details of the hardships endured by mariners employed in this trade. The story of those who grew rich on the proceeds of this trade is also outlined. Importantly, it explains just how the Peruvian government mismanaged the trade, to the extent that Peru became burdened with debts, rather than prospering on the proceeds of their vast new guano-based income.
Book Synopsis Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Guano Islands by : Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament
Download or read book Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Guano Islands written by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pacific Guano Company by : Pacific Guano Company
Download or read book The Pacific Guano Company written by Pacific Guano Company and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Guano Islands by : Mae Taylor Galarza
Download or read book The Guano Islands written by Mae Taylor Galarza and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wizard and the Prophet by : Charles C. Mann
Download or read book The Wizard and the Prophet written by Charles C. Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
Book Synopsis The "Guano Islands" by : United States Tariff Commission
Download or read book The "Guano Islands" written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Search for Nitre, and the True Nature of Guano by : Thomas Edward Eden
Download or read book The Search for Nitre, and the True Nature of Guano written by Thomas Edward Eden and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peruvian Guano Islands of Seventy Years Ago by : Robert Cushman Murphy
Download or read book The Peruvian Guano Islands of Seventy Years Ago written by Robert Cushman Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Guano Islands of Peru by : Union panaméricaine
Download or read book The Guano Islands of Peru written by Union panaméricaine and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guano Islands in the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Trip to the Peruvian Guano Islands by :
Download or read book A Trip to the Peruvian Guano Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Guano Islands of Southwestern Africa by : Arthur C. Watson
Download or read book The Guano Islands of Southwestern Africa written by Arthur C. Watson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
