A review by sallyavena
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

5.0

While I really liked the historical information provided and actually enjoyed the book as a whole, I found myself wondering at the simplicity of religating all of the worlds problems to salt. It seems that all majors wars, empires falling and social upheaval can be blamed on salt,the lack thereof or the control of it. To me that is just taking a simple road to explain the worlds problems. While I do acknowledge that salt is important (I have raised animals in my lifetime), I don't think that is the only problem. It was interesting to see things like the Revolutionary War, French Revolution and Civil War from the view of salt and salt production. Interesting that the influence of salt seems to have taken a back burner in the 20th century.