AuthorKurlansky, Mark
TitleSalt : a world history / Mark Kurlansky
Imprint New York : Walker & Company, c2002
Descript xii, 484 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

CONTENT

Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces: Mandate of Salt ; Fish, Fowl, and Pharoahs ; Saltmen Hard as Codfish ; 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


SUBJECT

  1. Salt industry and trade -- History
  2. Salt -- History

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