Neptune's Gift Robert P. Multhauf (Smithsonian Institution)

Name: Neptune's Gift By Robert P. Multhauf (Smithsonian Institution)
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Neptune's Gift by Robert P. Multhauf (Smithsonian Institution)

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SeriesJohns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

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This comprehensive history of salt deals with its production, uses, and role in the development of modern society. Today, only about two per cent of salt produced is for animal consumption.

Neptune's Gift Summary

Neptune's Gift: A History of Common Salt by Robert P. Multhauf (Smithsonian Institution)

This comprehensive history of salt deals with its production, uses, and role in the development of modern society. Today, only about two per cent of salt produced is for 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.

Neptune's Gift Reviews

"This book, with its excellent photographs, is to be recommended to everyone working on the history of salt and salt production and beyond that to everyone interested in the history of culture and technology."--'Technology and Culture' "[Multhauf's] reach is long and his grasp is firm. This work on salt has all the fluency and density of significant detail which make his earlier work, 'The Origins of Chemistry,' so valuable."--'Nature' "A source of much knowledge and an impetus to questions about the mutual rise of science and technology, their differences country by country and period by period, and about the hard issues of externalities and of overdevelopment. Dr. Multhauf writes well, with reflection and a lively, skeptical touch."--'Scientific American' "'Neptune's Gift' is an excellent work, of importance to the generalist as well as to the specialist, and is deserving of a wide audience."--'American Historical Review'

About Robert P. Multhauf (Smithsonian Institution)

Robert P. Multhauf has been associated with the Smithsonian Institution for over two decades. Among the positions he has held are director of the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology, president of the Society for the History of Technology, and editor of 'Isis'. He is the author of 'The Origins of Chemistry

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Sku

GOR007200440

ISBN 13

9780801854699

ISBN 10

0801854695

Title

Neptune's Gift: A History of Common Salt by Robert P. Multhauf (Smithsonian Institution)

Author

Robert P. Multhauf (Smithsonian Institution)

Series

Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Year published

1996-11-22

Number of pages

326

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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