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The Lobos Islands: American Imperialism in Peruvian Waters in 1852

The Lobos Islands: American Imperialism in Peruvian Waters in 1852 Footnotes 1 C. Hartley Grattan, The Southwest Pacific to 1900 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963), 461. 2 Ibid. For other useful references to the guano trade, see Jean I. Brookes, International Rivalry in the Pacific Islands (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941), a pioneering study in Pacific imperialism, now dated and with some inaccuracies; Roy F. Nichols, Advance Agents of American Destiny (Philadelphia, 1963); and Kenneth E. Shewmaker, ‘“Untaught Diplomacy’: Daniel Webster and the Lobos Islands Controversy”, Diplomatic History , 1 (1977), 321‐40. Nichols argued that with the annexation of Navassa, the tiny Caribbean guano island, in December 1859, “the American nation took its first step into the path of imperialism” (p. 189) but other islands had been appropriated two years earlier. On the role of Webster in the 1852 dispute with Peru, Nichols sketched in broad strokes much of the fine detail of Shewmaker's superb article. See also Shewmaker, “‘Hook and Line, and Bob and Sinker’: Daniel Webster and the Fisheries Dispute of 1852”, Diplomatic History (Spring 1989), 113‐29. In both articles Shewmaker advances the case that Webster's actions in the Lobos affair (which almost resulted in war with Peru), and in the Canadian Fisheries http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Footnotes 1 C. Hartley Grattan, The Southwest Pacific to 1900 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963), 461. 2 Ibid. For other useful references to the guano trade, see Jean I. Brookes, International Rivalry in the Pacific Islands (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941), a pioneering study in Pacific imperialism, now dated and with some inaccuracies; Roy F. Nichols, Advance Agents of American Destiny (Philadelphia, 1963); and Kenneth E. Shewmaker, ‘“Untaught Diplomacy’: Daniel Webster and the Lobos Islands Controversy”, Diplomatic History , 1 (1977), 321‐40. Nichols argued that with the annexation of Navassa, the tiny Caribbean guano island, in December 1859, “the American nation took its first step into the path of imperialism” (p. 189) but other islands had been appropriated two years earlier. On the role of Webster in the 1852 dispute with Peru, Nichols sketched in broad strokes much of the fine detail of Shewmaker's superb article. See also Shewmaker, “‘Hook and Line, and Bob and Sinker’: Daniel Webster and the Fisheries Dispute of 1852”, Diplomatic History (Spring 1989), 113‐29. In both articles Shewmaker advances the case that Webster's actions in the Lobos affair (which almost resulted in war with Peru), and in the Canadian Fisheries

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