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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.
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New York :
Walker and Co.,
©2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Rock
- Pt. 1.
- Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces
- Ch. 1.
- Mandate of Salt
- Ch. 2.
- Fish, Fowl, and Pharaohs
- Ch. 3.
- Saltmen Hard as Codfish
- Ch. 4.
- Salt's Salad Days
- Ch. 5.
- Salting it Alway in the Adriatic
- Ch. 6.
- Two Ports and the Prosciutto in Between
- Pt. 2.
- Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest
- Ch. 7.
- Friday's Salt
- Ch. 8.
- Nordic Dream
- Ch. 9.
- Well-Salted Hexagon
- Ch. 10.
- Hapsburg Pickle
- Ch. 11.
- Leaving of Liverpool
- Ch. 12.
- American Salt Wars
- Ch. 13.
- Salt and Independence
- Ch. 14.
- Liberte, Egalite, Tax Breaks
- Ch. 15.
- Preserving Independence
- Ch. 16.
- War Between the Salts
- Ch. 17.
- Red Salt
- Pt. 3.
- Sodium's Perfect Marriage
- Ch. 18.
- Odium of Sodium
- Ch. 19.
- Mythology of Geology
- Ch. 20.
- Soil Never Sets On ...
- Ch. 21.
- Salt and the Great Soul
- Ch. 22.
- Not Looking Back
- Ch. 23.
- Last Salt Days of Zigong
- Ch. 24.
- Ma, La, and Mao
- Ch. 25.
- More Salt than Fish
- Ch. 26.
- Big Salt, Little Salt.