Browsing New Contree: 2020 No 85 by Author "Snyders, Hendrik"
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“Preventing a silent wilderness, securing the economic bounty” – Cape guano and the politics of seabird protection during the 19th and early 20th century
Snyders, Hendrik (School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2020)The Cape Colony, after Peru, was the second-most-important supplier of seabird guano to commercial farmers on a worldwide scale during the nineteenth century. Despite the obvious benefits of selling guano licenses and ...