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Salt : a world history / Mark Kurlansky.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TN 900 .K865 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kurlansky, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Salt industry and trade--History.
- Salt industry and trade.
- Salt.
- Salt--History.
- Sodium Chloride.
- sodium chloride.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sodium Chloride.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker and Co., ©2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Rock
- Pt. 1. Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces
- Ch. 1. Mandate of Salt
- Ch. 2. Fish, Fowl, and Pharaohs
- Ch. 3. Saltmen Hard as Codfish
- Ch. 4. Salt's Salad Days
- Ch. 5. Salting it Alway in the Adriatic
- Ch. 6. Two Ports and the Prosciutto in Between
- Pt. 2. Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest
- Ch. 7. Friday's Salt
- Ch. 8. Nordic Dream
- Ch. 9. Well-Salted Hexagon
- Ch. 10. Hapsburg Pickle
- Ch. 11. Leaving of Liverpool
- Ch. 12. American Salt Wars
- Ch. 13. Salt and Independence
- Ch. 14. Liberte, Egalite, Tax Breaks
- Ch. 15. Preserving Independence
- Ch. 16. War Between the Salts
- Ch. 17. Red Salt
- Pt. 3. Sodium's Perfect Marriage
- Ch. 18. Odium of Sodium
- Ch. 19. Mythology of Geology
- Ch. 20. Soil Never Sets On ...
- Ch. 21. Salt and the Great Soul
- Ch. 22. Not Looking Back
- Ch. 23. Last Salt Days of Zigong
- Ch. 24. Ma, La, and Mao
- Ch. 25. More Salt than Fish
- Ch. 26. Big Salt, Little Salt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-465) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802713734
- 9780802713735
- 1417675160
- 9781417675166
- 0142001619
- 9780142001615
- OCLC:
- 48573453
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