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The bloodless revolution : a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times / Tristram Stuart.
LIBRA TX392 .S86 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stuart, Tristram.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europeans.
- History.
- Vegetarianism.
- Europe.
- India.
- Vegetarianism--Europe--History.
- Vegetarianism--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Europeans--India--History--17th century.
- Europeans--India--History--18th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 628 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition 2007.
- Other Title:
- Cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.
- Summary:
- Spanning across centuries, The Bloodless Revolution is a rich cornucopia of travel, adventure, radical politics, literature, and philosophy. Reaching forward into the twentieth century with the vegetarian ideologies of Tolstoy and Gandhi among others, it sheds surprising light on values still central to modern society.
- Contents:
- I Grass Roots
- 1 Bushell's Bushel, Bacon's Bacon and The Great Instauration 3
- 2 John Robins: The Shakers' God 15
- 3 Roger Crab: Levelling the Food Chain 26
- 4 Pythagoras and the Sages of India 39
- 5 'This proud and troublesome Thing, called Man': Thomas Tryon, the Brahmin of Britain 60
- 6 John Evelyn: Salvation in a Salad 78
- 7 The Kabbala Stripped Naked 89
- 8 Men should be Friends even to Brute Beasts: Isaac Newton and the Origins of Pagan Theology 97
- 9 Atheists, Deists and the Turkish Spy 115
- II Meatless Medicine
- 10 Dieting with Dr Descartes 131
- 11 Tooth and Nail: Pierre Gassendi and the Human Appendix 138
- 12 The Mitre and the Microscope: Philippe Hecquet's Catholic Fast Food 151
- 13 Dr Cheyne's Sensible Diet 163
- 14 Clarissa's Calories 181
- 15 Rousseau and the Bosoms of Nature 194
- 16 The Counter-Vegetarian Mascot: Pope's Happy Lamb 215
- 17 Antonio Cocchi and the Cure for Scurvy 227
- 18 The Sparing Diet: Scotland's Vegetarian Dynasty 236
- III Romantic Dinners
- 19 Diet and Diplomacy: Eating Beef in the Land of the Holy Cow 259
- 20 John Zephaniah Holwell: Voltaire's Hindu Prophet 275
- 21 The Cry of Nature: Killing in the Name of Animal Rights in the French Revolution 295
- 22 The Marquis de Valady faces the Guillotine 313
- 23 Bloodless Brothers 331
- 24 John 'Walking' Stewart and the Utility of Death 347
- 25 To Kill a Cat: Joseph Ritson's Politics of Atheism 361
- 26 Shelley and The Return to Nature 372
- 27 The Malthusian Tragedy: Feeding the World 399
- Epilogue. Vegetarianism and the Politics of Ecology: Thoreau, Gandhi and Hitler 418.
- Notes:
- "Norton paperback 2008."
- 2006 HarperPress ed. has subtitle: Radical vegetarians and the discovery of India.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-515) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780393330649
- 0393330648
- OCLC:
- 154707027
- Publisher Number:
- 99976949020
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