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Salt and Civilization (Hardcover)
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Salt and Civilization (Hardcover)
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'Highly recommended as a thorough examination of the commodity
history of salt'-The Geographical Journal. Salt has been called the
primordial addiction. It has been an object of almost universal
consumption since Neolithic times. This book sets out to place the
particular histories of salt in a global perspective and write the
history of a human commodity as a theme in world history. From
pagan man, through classical Rome, Byzantium, early Islam, the Dark
Ages, the Renaissance to the modern world, the production,
distribution, consumption and taxation of salt are examined. The
author shows how a history of salt cannot be separated from the
histories of commerce, medicine, diet, cooking, taxation, invention
and war. Although taken for granted today, salt has been of
critical economic and cultural importance to countries and peoples
throughout history; the instigator and catalyst to actions and
events ranging from the first maritime expedition of Muslim forces
to Columbus's discovery of America. After Salt and Civilization
salt can not be taken for granted again.
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