| Description |
x, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-465) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.7 23.0 109029. |
| Subject |
Salt.
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Salt -- History.
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Salt industry and trade -- History.
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| ISBN |
0142001619 paperback |
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9780142001615 paperback |
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