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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Kurlansky, Mark.     Subjects     Salt.     Salt -- History.     Salt industry and trade -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kurlansky, Mark.       by title:      Salt [electronic res...         MARC Display

Salt [electronic resource] : a world history / Mark Kurlansky. by Kurlansky, Mark. New York : Penguin Books, 2003. Subjects Salt.   Salt -- History.   Salt industry and trade -- History. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=680E33FB-7285-4FBC-8A1B-BB4339F01156 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/salt-680e33?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{680E33FB-7285-4FBC-8A1B-BB4339F01156}Img100.jpg ISBN:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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