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
History
1 online resource (xii, 484 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780802779441, 0802779441
1014323657
Discourse 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