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Salt and Civilization

Author : S.A.M. Adshead
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349218413
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Salt and Civilization written by S.A.M. Adshead and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Salt

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736979X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Salt written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning and bestselling author of Cod comes the dramatic, human story of a simple substance, an element almost as vital as water, that has created fortunes, provoked revolutions, directed economies and enlivened our recipes. Salt is common, easy to obtain and inexpensive. It is the stuff of kitchens and cooking. Yet trade routes were established, alliances built and empires secured – all for something that filled the oceans, bubbled up from springs, formed crusts in lake beds, and thickly veined a large part of the Earth’s rock fairly close to the surface. From pre-history until just a century ago – when the mysteries of salt were revealed by modern chemistry and geology – no one knew that salt was virtually everywhere. Accordingly, it was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history. Even today, salt is a major industry. Canada, Kurlansky tells us, is the world’s sixth largest salt producer, with salt works in Ontario playing a major role in satisfying the Americans’ insatiable demand. As he did in his highly acclaimed Cod, Mark Kurlansky once again illuminates the big picture by focusing on one seemingly modest detail. In the process, the world is revealed as never before.

Salt

Author : Anthony Harding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009037390
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Salt written by Anthony Harding and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element provides a concise account of the archaeology of salt production in ancient Europe. It describes what salt is, where it is found, what it is used for, and its importance for human and animal health. The different periods of the past in which it was produced are described, from earliest times down to the medieval period. Attention is paid to the abundant literary sources that inform us about salt in the Greek and Roman world, as well as the likely locations of production in the Mediterranean and beyond. The economic and social importance of salt in human societies means that salt has served as a crucial aspect of trade and exchange over the centuries, and potentially as a means of individuals and societies achieving wealth and status.

The Years of Rice and Salt

Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553897608
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The Years of Rice and Salt written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know. . . . “A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The New York Times Book Review It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur—the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been—one that stretches across centuries, sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, and spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson navigates a world where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions, while Christianity is merely a historical footnote. Probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power—and even love—in this bold New World. “Exceptional and engrossing.”—New York Post “Ambitious . . . ingenious.”—Newsday

SALT: WHITE GOLD of the ANCIENT MAYA

Author : Heather McKillop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813033433
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book SALT: WHITE GOLD of the ANCIENT MAYA written by Heather McKillop and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McKillop has completed a remarkable task in bringing out significant new data concerning ancient Maya salt making. The implications of environmental exploitation, technological development, and economic possibilities provide the opportunity to revisit these issues on more solid ground."--Fred Valdez Jr., University of Texas, Austin "Long-accepted ideas about Late Classic activities and the role of coastal communities in supporting Late Classic society--even the society of Tikal and the Peten--will now have to change as the result of McKillop's findings."--Elizabeth Graham, University College London In Salt: White Gold of the Ancient Maya, Heather McKillop reports the discovery, excavation, and interpretation of Late Classic Maya salt works on the coast of Belize, transforming our knowledge of the Maya salt trade and craft specialization while providing new insights on sea-level rise in the Late Holocene as well. Salt, basic to human existence, was scarce in the tropical rainforests of Belize and Guatemala, where the Classic Maya civilization thrived between A.D. 300 and 900. The prevailing interpretation has been that salt was imported from the north coast of the Yucatan. However, the underwater discovery and excavation of salt works in Punta Ycacos Lagoon demonstrate that the Maya produced salt by boiling brine in pots over fires at specialized workshops on the Belizean coast. The Punta Ycacos salt works are clear evidence that craft specialization took place in a nondomestic setting and that production occurred away from the economic and political power of the urban Maya rulers, thus providing new clues to the Maya economy and sea trade. McKillop also presents new data on sea-level rise in the Late Holocene that extend geologists' and geographers' sea-level curves from earlier eras. Likewise, she enters the environmental-versus-cultural debate over the Classic Maya collapse by evaluating the factors that led to the abandonment of the Punta Ycacos salt works at the end of the Classic Period, synonymous with the abandonment of inland Maya cities. Heather McKillop is associate professor of anthropology at Louisiana State University.

Salt

Author : Pierre Laszlo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231511310
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Salt written by Pierre Laszlo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word "salary"), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors, and Gandhi marched against the tyranny of the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, and mingled in the blood, sweat, and tears of humanity. Today, chefs of haute cuisine covet it in its most exotic forms—underground salt deposits, Hawaiian black lava salt, glittery African crystals, and pink Peruvian salt from the sea carried in bricks on the backs of llamas. From proverbs to technical arguments, from anecdotes to examples of folklore, chemist and philosopher Pierre Laszlo takes us through the kingdom of "white gold." With "enthusiasm and freshness" (Le Monde) he mixes literary analysis, history, anthropology, biology, physics, economics, art history, political science, chemistry, ethnology, and linguistics to create a full body of knowledge about the everyday substance that rocked the world and brings zest to the ordinary. Laszlo explains the history behind Morton Salt's slogan "When it rains, it pours!" and looks into the plight of the salt miner, as well as spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance. Salt is a tour de force about a chemical compound that is one of the very foundations of civilization.

The Salt Garden

Author : Cindy Martinusen Coloma
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418555614
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Salt Garden written by Cindy Martinusen Coloma and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-02-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three women's lives converge around the century-old mystery of a shipwreck. There's Sophia, a reclusive author who retreated from the world after a tragic loss, Claire, a young journalist who's reluctantly returned to her home town, and Josephine, a passenger from the ill-fated ship. As they discover the truth about lost love and buried secrets, each woman finds hope, healing, and strength to face the future.

The Story of Salt

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606357159
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Salt written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. The story of the only rock we eat, including its origin, the other discoveries made because of it, and tales of salt and the people who have been involved with it through the ages.

Mesopotamian Civilization

Author : Daniel T. Potts
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801433399
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Mesopotamian Civilization written by Daniel T. Potts and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the material infrastructure of the civilization of Southern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Examines the climate, landforms, and other conditions that enabled the area to become populated, details religious ideas and basic conditions of life, and compares contributions to Mesopotamian civilization from the East and from the West. Other subjects include agriculture and diet, kinship, mortuary practices, and functional aspects of writing and sealing. Includes many bandw drawings and maps. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Lloyd Salt

Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781099221866
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Lloyd Salt written by Evan Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lloyd Salt is a child prodigy in the care of a secretive branch of the C.I.A. that raises and trains child geniuses for the greater good of the country. For Lloyd, that is a family business as his mother and father are both trained agents. He now faces a test that all thirteen year olds in the system must complete before advancing further... a real life situation of emergency. His "term of stay" would consist of being sent on a mission with a supervisor to observe how he deals with a problem in a specific area and assignment. However nothing goes like Lloyd had imagined. With each situation comes further mystery as Lloyd becomes aware of the undisclosed intentions of this mission. He uncovers an ancient truth that threatens to spiral all civilization as we know it to its knees, and destroy all inhabitants of Earth.

Salt of the Earth

Author : Cecily Ullmann Sidgwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Salt of the Earth written by Cecily Ullmann Sidgwick and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maya Salt Works

Author : Heather McKillop
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813057116
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Maya Salt Works written by Heather McKillop and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Maya Salt Works, Heather McKillop details her archaeological team’s groundbreaking discovery of a unique and massive salt production complex submerged in a lagoon in southern Belize. Exploring the organization of production and trade at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, McKillop offers a fascinating new look at the role of salt in the ancient Maya economy. McKillop maps over 4,000 wooden posts and wedges, the first known wooden structures preserved underwater from the Classic period, describing new methods of underwater archaeology developed specifically for this shallow maritime setting. She explains the technology of salt production, examining fragments of briquetage—the pots that boiled brine over fires in the kitchens—and provides evidence that salt workers relied on specific types of wood for building construction. McKillop theorizes that different households operated salt kitchens and distributed their goods via canoe to sell at inland marketplaces for use as dietary salt, a flavor enhancer, and preservative. Complex distribution networks reveal expertise in water transportation and knowledge of the sea by Maya mariners, skills that allowed them to control the transport of commodities like salt. By evaluating the scale, concentration, intensity, and context of the Paynes Creek Salt Works, McKillop provides a model for interpreting existing salt works sites as well as future discoveries along the Yucatán Peninsula. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Salt

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575100346
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Salt written by Adam Roberts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two narrators tell the story of the simmering tensions between their two communities as they travel out to a new planet, colonise it, then destroy themselves when the tensions turn into outright war. Adam Roberts is a new writer completely in command of the SF genre. This is a novel that is at once entertaining and philosophical. The attitudes and prejudices of its characters are subtlety drawn and ring completely true despite the alien circumstances they find themselves in. The grasp of science and its impact on people is instinctive. But above all it is the epic and colourful world building that marks SALT out - the planet Salt rivals Dune in its desolation and is a suitably biblical setting for a novel that is powered by the corrupting influence of imperfectly remembered religions on distant societies. From the early scenes set on a colony ship towed by a massive ice meteorite, to the description of a planet covered in sodium chloride, to the chilling narrative of a world sliding into its first war, this is a novel from a writer who shouts star quality.

The Basque History Of The World

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448113229
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Basque History Of The World written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the world. Whilst inward-looking, preserving their ancient language and customs, the Basques also struck out for new horizons, pioneers of whaling and cod fishing, leading the way in exploration of the Americas and Asia, were among the first capitalists and later led Southern Europe's industrial revolution. Mark Kurlansky, the author of the acclaimed Cod, blends human stories with economic, political, literary and culinary history to paint a fascinating picture of an intriguing people.

Seventy Years Among Savages

Author : Henry S. Salt
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Seventy Years Among Savages written by Henry S. Salt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seventy Years Among Savages" by Henry S. Salt is a collection of essays about animal welfare. Some notable titles include The argument -- Where ignorance was bliss -- Literæ inhumaniores -- The discovery -- Cannibal's conscience -- Glimpses of civilization -- The poet-pioneer -- Voices crying in the wilderness -- A league of humaneness -- Twentieth-century tortures -- Hunnish sports and fashions – etc. Excerpt: "The seventy years spent by me among savages form the subject of this story, but not, be it noted, seventy years of consciousness that my life was so cast, for during the first part of my residence in the strange land where I was born, the dreadful reality of my surroundings was hardly suspected by me, except now and then, perhaps, in a passing glimmer of apprehension. Then, by slow degrees, incident after incident brought a gradual awakening, until at last there dawned on my mind the conviction which alone could explain and reconcile for me the many contradictions of our society—that we were not "civilized" but "savages"—that the "dark ages," far from being part of a remote past, were very literally present."

Between Salt Water and Holy Water

Author : Tommaso Astarita
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393058642
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Between Salt Water and Holy Water written by Tommaso Astarita and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy (the two regions were distinct cultural and political entities until 1868), but it has never been given its own historical due. The myriad influences that shaped modern civilisation in the Mediterranean come together in southern Italy and Sicily - the region once known as the 'Kingdom of the Two Sicilies'. What the rest of the world recognises as Italian culture - from opera to pizza - was born in the South. Yet negative images of its poverty, violence, superstition and nearness to Africa fuelled stereotypes of what was and was not acceptably 'European'. From the Normans and Angevins through Spanish and Bourbon rule to the unification of Italy, historian Tommaso Astarita explores the intellectual, religious, economic and political history of this fascinating region and delivers an accessibly written book that is not just colourful and scholarly but also wholly engrossing.

Salt Creek

Author : Lucy Treloar
Publisher : Gallic Books
ISBN 13 : 1910709360
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Salt Creek written by Lucy Treloar and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted The Times' Book of the Year, Salt Creek is an Australian historical novel about a family pursuing their dreams, duty, and displacement. ‘Salt Creek is a love song to a lost world' The Guardian A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance through the eyes of a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia. The comfortable and respectable life Hester Finch now leads in Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt Creek in 1855. Yet she finds her thoughts drawn back to that remote, beautiful and inhospitable outcrop of South Australia and the connections she and her siblings forged there, far from the city society in which they had been raised. Encounters with the few travellers passing along the nearby stock route and the local indigenous people, in particular a boy, Tully, whom Hester's father seeks to educate almost as his own son, would change the fates of the Finches forever; nor would life ever be the same again for those who had long called the area home.