Skaggs Jimmy M.:
The Great Guano Rush
Entrepreneurs And American Overseas Expansion
Palgrave Macmillan (United Kingdom), 1994
Hardback, 336 pages
Size: 223x145 mm
ISBN: 9780333614983
ISBN-10: 0333614984
List price: £82.00
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The Great Guano Rush
This text describes the history of the earliest example of American overseas expansion. Fuelled by the desire for cheaper fertilizer, Congress authorized the claiming and exploitation of unowned guano-rich islands around the world - leading to a strange group of American "appurtenances".
