Title: Salt: A World History
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Pages: 480 (or so)
At about page 100 I knew more about salt than I ever really wanted to know. In short: the Chinese were ahead of everyone else by 1200 years, at least. And every govt that tried to tax salt found it a catastrophic error -- except the Chinese, who instead founded an empire on it.
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