Salt
Subtitle: a world history
By: Mark Kurlansky.
Publisher: Walker and Co.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Salt industry and trade -- History.; Salt.; Salt -- History.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.
Table of contents: title: Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt; title: Fish, fowl, and pharoahs; title: Saltmen hard as codfish; title: Salt's salad days; title: Salting it away in the Adriatic; title: Two ports and the prosciutto in between; title: Glow of herring and the scent of conquest: Friday's salt; title: Nordic dream; title: Well-salted hexagon; title: Hapsburg pickle; title: Leaving of Liverpool; title: American salt wars; title: Salt and independence; title: Liberte, egalite, tax breaks; title: Preserving independence; title: War between the salts; title: Red salt; title: Sodium's perfect marriage: Odium of sodium; title: Mythology of geology; title: Soil never sets on; title: Salt and the great soul; title: Not looking back; title: Last salt days of Zigong; title: Ma, La, and Mao; title: More salt than fish; title: Big salt, little salt.