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Salt : a world history / Mark Kurlansky.

by Kurlansky, Mark.

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New York : Penguin Books, 2003.

Salt -- History.

Salt industry and trade -- History.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2004270006-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2004270006-b.html

0142001619 (pbk.)

9780142001615 (pbk.) :

x, 484 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- Liberté, egalité, tax breaks -- Preserving independence -- The war between the salts -- Red salt -- pt. 3. 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.

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