The edges of empire and the limits of sovereignty: American Guano Islands

American Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 779-803

  Burnett, Christina Duffy ^a  

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EID: 34047140737     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: 10806490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2005.0040     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. General Accounting Office, U.S. Insular Areas: Application of the U.S. Constitution, Report to the Chairman, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives (November 1997), 41 (cited hereinafter as "GAO Report")
2. Jimmy M. Skaggs, The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion (London: Macmillan, 1994), 85 (quoting U.S. v. Fullard-Leo, 133 F.2d 743, 747 [9th Cir. 1943], Judge Healy dissenting)
3. Arnold H. Leibowitz, Defining Status: A Comprehensive Analysis of United States Territorial Relations (Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1989)
4. Skaggs, Great Guano Rush, 85. The act is at 48 U.S.C. sec. 1411-19
5. Skaggs, Great Guano Rush, chap. 4
6. Dan O'Donnell, "The Lobos Islands: American Imperialism in Peruvian Waters," The Australian Journal of Politics and History 39 (1993): 37-55
7. Dan O'Donnell, "The Pacific Guano Islands: The Stirring of American Empire in the Pacific Ocean," Pacific Studies 16 (1993): 43-66
8. Roy F. Nichols, Advance Agents of American Destiny (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1956), 189-90
9. I do not address the difference between the American claim to Midway (and Wake) and the claims to guano islands in this essay. On this, see "Sovereignty," 920-40
10. D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, vol. 2: Continental America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1993), 556
11. Richard A. Wines, Fertilizer in America: From Waste Recycling to Resource Exploitation (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1985), 39
12. Ibid
13. Wines, Fertilizer in America, 59-61
14. Roy F. Nichols, "Latin American Guano Diplomacy," in Modern Hispanic America, ed. A. Curtis Wilgus (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University Press, 1933), 536-40
15. Ibid
16. 9 Ops. 30 (June 2, 1857)
17. Roy F. Nichols, "Navassa: A Forgotten Acquisition," American Historical Review 38.3 (1933): 505-10, at 506
18. 9 Ops. 364, 369 (July 12, 1859)
19. John Cashman, "Slaves Under Our Flag," The Maryland Historian 24.2 (1993): 1-22, at 1
20. Quoted in Cashman, Slaves Under Our Flag, 1, n. 1
21. Jones v. United States, 137 U.S. 202, 211
22. Cashman, Slaves Under Our Flag, 17-18
23. See Cashman, Slaves Under Our Flag, 1, 19
24. That is, if on further examination we could all agree that it really is an incorporated territory. See note 4 above
25. Compare Koskenniemi, Gentle Civilizer, chap. 2 (discussing the dynamic of inclusion and exclusion in the context of late-nineteenth-century European colonialism)