Salt a world history

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kurlansky, Mark (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Penguin 2003, c2002.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. A discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources. A 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
  • 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.