Format:
Online-Ressource (418 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107004139
Series Statement:
Studies in Environment and History
Content:
This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Prologue; 1 Introduction; The Lord of Guano; Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Shit in History; Overview; 2 The Guano Age; In Humboldts Footsteps; The End of the Ecological Old Regime; Peru in the Guano Age; The Nitrogen Wars of the Atacama; 3 Neo-Ecological Imperialism; Guano and American Expansionism; "The Cecil Rhodes of the Pacific" and Workers of Niue; The Age of Soap and Water; 4 Where Is Banaba?; The People of the Rock; The Ecology of Invasion; Phosphate and the Grasslands Revolution; Toward a "Final Solution"
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5 Conservation and the Technocratic IdealOrder, Then Progress; The Guano Problem; "A Practicable Soviet of Technicians"; 6 The Most Valuable Birds in the World; Protecting Perus "Billion-Dollar Birds"; Disciplining Workers, Serving Agribusiness; Coping with Resistance; The Lord of the Guanays; Opening New Horizons; 7 When the Japanese Came to Dinner; "An Era of Diminishing Returns"; "Must We Fight Japan?"; Population Bomb in the Central Pacific; The Road to Underdevelopment; 8 The Road to Survival; Peru and the Pan American Conservation Movement; Latin America and the Land Ethic
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The Environmentalist ManifestoExploding the Population Bomb; 9 Guano and the Blue Revolution; Guano and the Green Revolution; The Geopolitics of the Blue Revolution; "To Fish or Not to Fish?"; Chicken from the Sea; Replacing the Guano Birds; 10 Conclusion; "How'd You Like to Spend Christmas on Christmas Island?"; Silent Spring on Isla Don Martín; Waking Up from a Silent Spring; Select Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107308480
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107004139
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World A Global Ecological History
Language:
English
Keywords:
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