Salt : a world history / Mark Kurlansky
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- 3039162
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- Author:
- Kurlansky, Mark
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- New York : Walker and Co., c2002
- xii, 484 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0802713734
- Summary:
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This book takes a look at an ordinary substance--salt, the only rock humans eat--and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning.
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- Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt
- Fish, fowl, and pharoahs
- Saltmen hard as codfish
- Salt's salad days
- Salting it away in the Adriatic
- Two ports and the prosciutto in between
- Glow of herring and the scent of conquest: Friday's salt
- Nordic dream
- Well-salted hexagon
- Hapsburg pickle
- Leaving of Liverpool
- American salt wars
- Salt and independence
- Liberte, egalite, tax breaks
- Preserving independence
- War between the salts
- Red salt
- Sodium's perfect marriage: Odium of sodium
- Mythology of geology
- Soil never sets on
- Salt and the great soul
- Not looking back
- Last salt days of Zigong
- Ma, La, and Mao
- More salt than fish
- Big salt, little salt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.
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- 2002
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