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The Guano Age in Peru After gaining its independence from Spain in 1824, Peru experienced a boom as a result of demand for guano as a fertiliser. As John Peter Olinger details, the boom came to an end when it was replaced by nitrate as the preferred fertiliser, and Chile seized Peruvian nitrate deposits in the War of the Pacific from 1879-84.
Feb 18, 2019 · Historian Daniel Immerwahr shares surprising stories of U.S. territorial expansion, including how the desire for bird guano compelled the seizure of remote islands. His book is How to Hide an Empire.
The guano boom, like most booms, led to a guano bust. As more and more islands were leveled and left behind, people worried less about how much guano cost and more about getting it at all.
Guano (Spanish from Quechua: wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. Guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to the high content of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, all key nutrients essential for plant growth. Guano was also, to a lesser extent, sought for the production of gunpowder and other explosive materials.
Aug 18, 2020 · Everything that it is known about Inca history is based on the analysis of bibliographic texts derived from early Spanish colonizers that documented several Inca oral traditions, especially in relation to indigenous coastal people who collaborated with the colonizers (Cushman 2013) and as obtained from archaeological and anthropological studies and from guano industry reports.
- Pedro Rodrigues, Joana Micael
- 2021
Jul 14, 2014 · Today, the bird populations are a ghost of their earlier numbers. Cushman is effective in speaking about the removal and resettlement of people around the Pacific Ocean: how indigenes had learned to subsist in a fragile, diverse, yet rich seascape and how their practices went unheeded in an increasingly technocratic, impersonal society.
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Dec 20, 2021 · But, as Cushman argues, guano wasn’t simply an example of this process, it helped transform agriculture into a new system that was dependent on external inputs, and “one-way patterns of production, consumption and waste.” Ironically, guano itself was a unsustainable resource when extracted on the scale that industrial agriculture demanded.
