The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion

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Hardcover
1994
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'Guano' (bird droppings) 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, authorised U.S. citizens to claim and exploit unowned guano-rich islands around the world.

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'Guano' (bird droppings) 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, authorised U.S. citizens to claim and exploit unowned guano-rich islands around the world.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 1994
ISBN 10: 0312103166
ISBN 13: 9780312103163

The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion

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$186.79

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$186.79

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