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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Kurlansky, Mark.
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Salt.
Salt -- History.
Salt industry and trade -- History.
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Salt [electronic resource] : a world history / Mark Kurlansky.
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Kurlansky, Mark.
New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
Subjects
Salt.
Salt -- History.
Salt industry and trade -- History.
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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=680E33FB-7285-4FBC-8A1B-BB4339F01156
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9780698139152 (electronic bk.)
0698139151 (electronic bk.)
Description:
1 online resource (x, 484 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Contents:
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 -- Liberté, egalité, 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.
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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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