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LEADER: 01492cam a2200241Ia 45x0
001 301759
005 20031015113640.0
008 030305r20032002nyuab b 001 0 eng d
035 $a51565424
040 $aKUT$cKUT$dJYJ$dXIM
020 $a0142001619
090 $aTN900$b.K865 2003
049 $aXIMM
100 1 $aKurlansky, Mark.
245 10 $aSalt :$ba world history /$cMark Kurlansky.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin,$c2003, c2002.
300 $ax, 484 p. :$bill., maps ;$c20 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.
505 0 $apt. 1. A discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources. A mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharaohs -- Saltmen hard as codfish -- Salt's salad days -- Salting it away in the Adriatic -- Two ports and the prosciutto in between -- pt. 2. The glow of herring and the scent of conquest. Friday's salt -- A Nordic dream -- A well-salted hexagon -- The Hapsburg pickle -- The leaving of Liverpool -- American salt wars -- Salt and independence -- Liberté, egalité, tax breaks -- Preserving independence -- The war between the salts -- Red salt -- pt. 3. 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.
650 0 $aSalt.
650 0 $aSalt$xHistory.
650 0 $aSalt industry and trade$xHistory.
994 $aX0$bXIM