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The Great Guano Rush - Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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The Great Guano Rush - Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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How did some of the most savage and desolate islands in the world,
scattered across the Pacific and Caribbean, become U.S.
territories? The Great Guano Rush describes the fascinating and
little-known history of this earliest example of American overseas
expansion. "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,
authorized U.S. 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 on Navassa Island to the contemporary
issue of the Johnston Atoll chemical weapon destruction plant. The
Great Guano Rush is an important book for its insights on both 19th
century America and the history of a key commodity. But it is also
important in establishing that, contrary to the American free
enterprise myth, the success of this country has always been based
on a close cooperation between business and government.
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