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Author Kurlansky, Mark.

Title Salt : a world history / Mark Kurlansky.

Publication Info. New York : Walker and Co., [2002]
©2002
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1032084~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  333.85632 KUR    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  333.85632 KUR    WORKROOM
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Description xii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-465) and index.
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 Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharoahs -- Saltmen hard as codfish -- Salt's salad days -- 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 Salt.
Salt -- History.
Salt industry and trade -- History.
ISBN 9780142001615
0802713734
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