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Salt : a world history / Mark Kurlansky.

By: Publication details: New York : Walker and Co., c2002.Description: xii, 484 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0802713734
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.85632 21
LOC classification:
  • TN900 .K87 2002
Contents:
Introduction: The Rock. Pt. 1. A Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces : Ch. 1. A Mandate of Salt -- Ch. 2. Fish, Fowl, and Pharoahs -- 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. The Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest : Ch. 7. Friday's Salt -- Ch. 8. A Nordic Dream -- Ch. 9. A Well-Salted Hexagon -- Ch. 10. The Hapsburg Pickle -- Ch. 11. The 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. The War Between the Salts -- Ch. 17. Red Salt.
Pt. 3. Sodium's Perfect Marriage : Ch. 18. The Odium of Sodium -- Ch. 19. The Mythology of Geology -- Ch. 20. The Soil Never Sets On ... -- Ch. 21. Salt and the Great Soul -- Ch. 22. Not Looking Back -- Ch. 23. The Last Salt Days of Zigong -- Ch. 24. Ma, La, and Mao -- Ch. 25. More Salt than Fish -- Ch. 26. Big Salt, Little Salt.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks TN900 .K87 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000669852

Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.

Introduction: The Rock. Pt. 1. A Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces : Ch. 1. A Mandate of Salt -- Ch. 2. Fish, Fowl, and Pharoahs -- 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. The Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest : Ch. 7. Friday's Salt -- Ch. 8. A Nordic Dream -- Ch. 9. A Well-Salted Hexagon -- Ch. 10. The Hapsburg Pickle -- Ch. 11. The 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. The War Between the Salts -- Ch. 17. Red Salt.

Pt. 3. Sodium's Perfect Marriage : Ch. 18. The Odium of Sodium -- Ch. 19. The Mythology of Geology -- Ch. 20. The Soil Never Sets On ... -- Ch. 21. Salt and the Great Soul -- Ch. 22. Not Looking Back -- Ch. 23. The Last Salt Days of Zigong -- Ch. 24. Ma, La, and Mao -- Ch. 25. More Salt than Fish -- Ch. 26. Big Salt, Little Salt.

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