GUANO AND THE OPENING OF THE PACIFIC WORLD by Gregory T. Cushman ( 9781107655966 )

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GUANO AND THE OPENING OF THE PACIFIC WORLD
A GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL HISTORY

By:

Gregory T. Cushman

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

12 December, 2013

Series:

Studies in Environment and History

Pages:

416

Description:

This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.

Synopsis:

For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification of guano has shaped the modern Pacific Basin and the world's relationship to the region. Marrying traditional methods of historical analysis with a broad interdisciplinary approach, Gregory T. Cushman casts this once little-known commodity as an engine of Western industrialization, offering new insight into uniquely modern developments such as environmental consciousness and conservation movements; the ascendance of science, technology and expertise; international relations; and world war.

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16 b/w illus. 4 maps

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Turku Book Award for Environmental History 2015 Winner of American Historical Association Jerry Bentley Prize 2014 Winner of Agricultural History Society Henry A. Wallace Award 2013

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