Common salt--a substance seemingly too ordinary to think about, yet it is the oldest of our raw materials and the basis of some of our newest inventions. Mythology and folklore abound in stories and proverbs about salt. It has been a source of revenue to governments from ancient China to ancien regime France to the United States. The search for this commodity ushered in the age of petroleum fuels. In the first comprehensive history of salt, Robert P. Multhauf deals with its production, uses, and role in the development of ...
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Common salt--a substance seemingly too ordinary to think about, yet it is the oldest of our raw materials and the basis of some of our newest inventions. Mythology and folklore abound in stories and proverbs about salt. It has been a source of revenue to governments from ancient China to ancien regime France to the United States. The search for this commodity ushered in the age of petroleum fuels. In the first comprehensive history of salt, Robert P. Multhauf deals with its production, uses, and role in the development of modern society. Today, only about two percent of the salt produced is for human and animal consumption. Ten times as much is used in the winter salting of roads, and about half of today's enormous production is used in the chemical industries, for the production, among other things, of herbicides, pesticides, and other environment-threatening materials.
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Near Fine. Second printing, 1979, hardcover with blue cloth boards, octavo, 325pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Second printing. Quarto. 325pp. Blue cloth boards. Black and white illustrations, maps. Very good (plus) with owner embossed stamp on front fly, slightly bowed boards, light wear along the board edges in an about near fine dust jacket with a few small creases on wrapper flaps, slight rubbing and edge wear. Part of the *Johns Hopkins Studies in History and Technology* series.
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