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050 1 0 _aTN900
_b.K865 2002
100 1 _aKurlansky, Mark.
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245 1 0 _aSalt :
_ba world history /
_cMark Kurlansky.
260 _aNew York :
_bWalker,
_cc2002.
300 _axii, 484 p. :
_bill. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.
505 0 _aDiscourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharoahs [sic] -- Saltmen hard as codfish -- Salt's salad days -- Salting it away in the Adriatic -- Two ports and the prosciutto in between -- Glow of herring and the scent of conquest: Friday's salt -- Nordic dream -- Well-salted hexagon -- Hapsburg pickle -- Leaving of Liverpool -- American salt wars -- Salt and independence -- Liberte, egalite, tax breaks -- Preserving independence -- War between the salts -- Red salt -- Sodium's perfect marriage: Odium of sodium -- Mythology of geology -- Soil never sets on -- Salt and the great soul -- Not looking back -- Last salt days of Zigong -- Ma, La, and Mao -- More salt than fish -- Big salt, little salt.
650 0 _aSalt industry and trade
_xHistory.
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