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Salt : a world history

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
Print Book, English, ©2002
Walker and Co., New York, ©2002
History
xii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9780802713735, 9781417675166, 9780142001615, 0802713734, 1417675160, 0142001619
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Introduction The Rock1(16)
PART ONE A Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces
A Mandate of Salt
17(19)
Fish, Fowl, and Pharoahs
36(16)
Saltmen Hard as Codfish
52(9)
Salt's Salad Days
61(19)
Salting It Away in the Adriatic
80(11)
Two Ports and the Prosciutto in Between
91(18)
PART TWO The Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest
Friday's Salt
109(20)
A Nordic Dream
129(15)
A Well-Salted Hexagon
144(18)
The Hapsburg Pickle
162(17)
The Leaving of Liverpool
179(21)
American Salt Wars
200(14)
Salt and Independence
214(11)
Liberte, Egalite, Tax Breaks
225(13)
Preserving Independence
238(19)
The War Between the Salts
257(19)
Red Salt
276(15)
PART THREE Sodium's Perfect Marriage
The Odium of Sodium
291(12)
The Mythology of Geology
303(15)
The Soil Never Sets On ...
318(15)
Salt and the Great Soul
333(22)
Not Looking Back
355(14)
The Last Salt Days of Zigong
369(19)
Ma, La, and Mao
388(11)
More Salt than Fish
399(27)
Big Salt, Little Salt
426(25)
Acknowledgments451(2)
Bibliography453(14)
Index467