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.,
Ã2002.
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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.
