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237 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199695751
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 12 December 2012
Description
This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.' National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mi...
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237 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199695751
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 12 December 2012
Description
This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.' National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mi...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings