The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion

by Jimmy M. Skaggs

Book Overview

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, authorised...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312103166
• ISBN13: 9780312103163
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"