The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion
- List Price: $16.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Publish date: 05/01/1995
Description:
The little-known history of an early government intervention in business. In 1856, Congress, believing that American farmers were being gouged on sales of guano (bird droppings used as fertilizer), authorized citizens to claim unowned guano-rich islands around the world. The legacy of this decision is a collection of American territories from the Caribbean to the Pacific. Maps.
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