The Pacific Guano Rush
Author | : Scot W. Wrighton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Guano |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Scot W. Wrighton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Guano |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jimmy M. Skaggs |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Caribbean Area |
ISBN | : 9780333614983 |
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.
Author | : Pacific Guano Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Fertilizer industry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gregory T. Cushman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2013-03-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107004136 |
This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.
Author | : Pacific Guano Company |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781376841855 |
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Author | : Pacific Guano Company |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013491221 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Gregory Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520967968 |
In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai‘i to work on ships at sea and in na ‘aina ‘e (foreign lands)—on the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California. Beyond Hawai‘i tells the stories of these forgotten indigenous workers and how their labor shaped the Pacific World, the global economy, and the environment. Whether harvesting sandalwood or bird guano, hunting whales, or mining gold, these migrant workers were essential to the expansion of transnational capitalism and global ecological change. Bridging American, Chinese, and Pacific historiographies, Beyond Hawai‘i is the first book to argue that indigenous labor—more than the movement of ships and spread of diseases—unified the Pacific World.
Author | : Brij V. Lal |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824822651 |
An encyclopaedia of information on major aspects of Pacific life, including the physical environment, peoples, history, politics, economy, society and culture. The CD-ROM contains hyperlinks between section titles and sections, a library of all the maps in the encyclopaedia, and a photo library.
Author | : Paul Theroux |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 731 |
Release | : 2006-12-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0547525184 |
The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
Author | : Pacific Guano Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Fertilizers |
ISBN | : |