Honor and Guano: The History of the First Pacific War
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Spain's last chance to restore its influence in the former colonies in South America came in 1863 for an interesting reason. The conflict between the former metropolis and Peru, which was later joined by Peru's neighbors, formally began due to the murder of a Basque man and the ambitions of the government of the Spanish queen Isabella II. However, in reality, the First Pacific War (1864-1866) turned into the world's first struggle for the most valuable resource - guano, the petrified excrement of birds that had inhabited the cliffs at the edge of the earth for millennia. It also marked the first large-scale use of a steam-powered naval fleet in the Southern Hemisphere. The unwillingness of the populations of small countries to endure national humiliation ultimately deprived Spain of its status as a superpower, as told in the new book by Vyacheslav Kondratyev, the author of the bestseller "The Great Paraguayan War." By exploring a little-known topic to Russian readers, the author shows that the bloody events of those years - with uprisings, betrayals, and absurd coincidences that destroyed entire ships - were just a logical prelude to the subsequent large-scale War for Guano and Saltpeter, in which Chile, Peru, and Bolivia clashed in 1879.
Author:
Author:Kondratyev Vyacheslav Igorevich
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Romance & Love
Dimensions:
Dimensions:22x14.6x2.3 cm
Series:
Series:LLC 'Bestseller'
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-6048061-1-1
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