Título :	Salt : a world history
Tipo de documento:	texto impreso
Autores:	Kurlansky, Mark, Autor
Editorial:	New York, NY : Walker & Company
Fecha de publicación:	2002
Número de páginas:	x, 484 p. : ill., maps
Dimensiones:	20 cm.
ISBN/ISSN/DL:	978-0-14-200161-5
Nota general:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.
Palabras clave:	Salt industry and trade--History.  Salt.  Salt--History.
Nota de contenido:	Contents: Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharoahs -- 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 -- The Hapsburg pickle -- The leaving of Liverpool -- American salt wars -- Salt and independence -- Liberte, egalite, tax breaks -- Preserving independence -- The war between the salts -- Red salt -- Sodium's perfect marriage: The odium of sodium -- The mythology of geology -- The soil never sets on -- Salt and the great soul -- Not looking back -- The last salt days of Zigong -- Ma, La, and Mao -- More salt than fish -- Big salt, little salt.

Salt : a world history [texto impreso] / Kurlansky, Mark, Autor . - New York, NY : Walker & Company, 2002 . - x, 484 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-14-200161-5
Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.

Palabras clave:

Salt industry and trade--History.  Salt.  Salt--History.

Nota de contenido:

Contents: Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharoahs -- 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 -- The Hapsburg pickle -- The leaving of Liverpool -- American salt wars -- Salt and independence -- Liberte, egalite, tax breaks -- Preserving independence -- The war between the salts -- Red salt -- Sodium's perfect marriage: The odium of sodium -- The mythology of geology -- The soil never sets on -- Salt and the great soul -- Not looking back -- The last salt days of Zigong -- Ma, La, and Mao -- More salt than fish -- Big salt, little salt.