Salt : a world history / Mark Kurlansky.

By: Kurlansky, MarkMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Walker, c2002Description: xii, 484 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 0802713734Subject(s): Salt industry and trade -- History | Salt -- History | SaltLOC classification: TN900 | .K865 2002
Contents:
Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharoahs [sic] -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.

Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharoahs [sic] -- 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.

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