Energy and Society (winter 2022)
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Assigned reading:
"Dinner at Glasgow in honour of Professor Liebig," The Lancet (1844): 170. (German coverage.)
Edward D. Melillo, "The first Green Revolution: Debt peonage and the making of the nitrogen fertilizer trade, 1840-1930," American Historical Review 117 (2012): 1028-1060.
Pick ONE reading from these options:
Czech: F. S. Kodym, translation of J. A. Stöckhardt, "Guano," Nejhlavnější základ rolnictví: Lučba rolnická (1852). (Cf. Polish translation, p. 65)
Czech: Anton Červený, "Guano," Rolník v přírodě (1871), 115-124.
Hungarian: "A guanot már Magyarországban is kezdik használni," Falusi gazda 2 n. 2 (1857): 83-84.
Polish: Julian Zabarowski, "Guano," Przyroda i Przemysl 1 n. 2 (1856): 12-14.
Russian: D. I. Mendeleev, "Производство искусственных удобрений," О современном развитии некоторых химических производств, в применении к России и по поводу Всемирной выставки 1867 года (1867), 123-156. [This is much longer than the other options, so you may count it as a presentation credit.]
German: "Ueber den Guano," Allgemeine land- und forstwirthschaftliche Zeitung (26 July 1851).
German: Ed. Tammel, "Wichtigkeits der Hilfs- oder künstlichen Düngemittel," Allgemeine land- und forstwirthschaftliche Zeitung (3 April 1852).
[Baltic] German: K. v. Fölkersahm, "Guano," Libausches Wochenblatt (21 March 1853).
English: John. W. Nesbit, On Peruvian Guano (1852).
Suggested reading:
Gregory T. Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (2013).
George W. Peck, Melbourne and the Chincha Islands, with Sketches of Lima, and a Voyage Round the World (1854).
William Howard Russell, A Visit to Chile and the Nitrate Fields of Tarapaca etc. (1890).
Bärbel Rott, "Alexander von Humboldt brachte Guano nach Europa – mit ungeahnten globalen Folgen," International Review for Humboldtian Studies 17 (2016).
Jane Hutton, "Inexhaustible terrain," CCA (2016).
National Museum of American History exhibition, The Norie Marine Atlas and the Guano Trade (2016).
Dave Hollett, More Precious Than Gold: The Story of the Peruvian Guano Trade (2008).
Ernst Homburg, "Chemistry and industry: A tale of two moving targets," Isis 109 (2018): 565-576.
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