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<BODY background="" bgColor=#ffffff><FONT size=2 face=Arial>From: Greg Cushman
gcushman@ku.edu<BR>Date: 2013/7/25<BR><BR><BR>Gregory T. Cushman (University of
Kansas) recently published the following book:<BR><FONT size=4>Guano and the
Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History.</FONT> Cambridge and
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Series: Studies in Environmental and
History.<BR>xxii + 393 pp., illus., figs., maps, tables, biblio., index, ISBN
9781107004139 <BR>Available at
http://www.cambridge.org/9781107004139<BR>Reviewed in Science 340 (28 June
2013): 1525-26. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1239339
<BR><BR>Although focused on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book
begins with a section on guano in ancient and colonial Peru. This includes a new
transcription and interpretation of a 1560s coat of arms belonging to don Pedro
Guañeque found on Isla Chincha Norte, now at the British Museum and better known
as the "Bollaert slab" cited in Kubler's classic article "<U>Guano
Archaeology</U>," and the Urpi Huachac story at the beginning of the Huarochiri
Manuscript--all fixated on the centrality of guano birds, guano islands, and
guano to their meaning.<BR><BR><BR>Greg<BR>Gregory T. Cushman<BR>Associate
Professor of International Environmental History<BR>University of
Kansas<BR><BR><BR></FONT></BODY></HTML>