Salt : a world history / Mark Kurlansky.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2003.Description: x, 484 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0142001619 (pbk.)
- 9780142001615 (pbk.)
- 553.6/32/09 22
- TN900 .K865 2003
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552 BRA THE YOUNG NATURALIST | 552 CHE NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDE TO ROCKS AND MINERALS | 553.2 FRE COAL | 553.6 KUR Salt : | 553.8 SCH Gemstones of the world / | 553.8 VOILLOT Diamonds and precious stones / | 557.94 ALT ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.
A discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources. A mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharaohs -- Saltmen hard as codfish -- Salt's salad days -- Salting it away in the Adriatic -- Two ports and the prosciutto in between -- The glow of herring and the scent of conquest. Friday's salt -- A Nordic dream -- A well-salted hexagon -- The Hapsburg pickle -- The leaving of Liverpool -- American salt wars -- Salt and independence -- Libert�e, egalit�e, tax breaks -- Preserving independence -- The war between the salts -- Red salt -- Sodium's perfect marriage. The odium of sodium -- The mythology of geology -- The soil never sets on -- Salt and the great soul -- Not looking back -- The last salt days of Zigong -- Ma, la, and Mao -- More salt than fish -- Big salt, little salt.
Explores the role of salt in shaping history, discussing how one of the world's most sought-after commodities has influenced economics, science, politics, religion, and eating customs.
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