Neptunes Gift A History of Common Salt

Common salt is 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 accounts of its power and importance. Salt has been a crucial source of revenue to governments from ancient china to ancien regime France and even the U.S. And the ongoing search for this valuable commodity ushered in the age of petroleum fuels. In the first comprehensive history of salt, Robert Multhauf tells the remarkable story of its production, its uses, and its role in various cultures from ancient times to the present. This book, with its excellent photographs, is to be recommended to everyone interest in the history of culture and technology.Multhauf, Robert P. is the author of 'Neptunes Gift A History of Common Salt' with ISBN 9780756765064 and ISBN 0756765064.