The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times

Stuart, Tristram

ISBN 10: 0393052206 / ISBN 13: 9780393052206

Published by W.W. Norton & Co, New York, 2007

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Large octavo in color-illus DJ; xxvi, 628 p., [24] p. of plates: ill. (some col.), ports., bibliographical references (p. [450]-515) and index; 25 cm. Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- [pt]. 1. Grass roots -- 1. Bushell's bushel, Bacon's bacon and The great instauration -- 2. John Robins: the Shakers' God -- 3. 3. Roger Crab: levelling the food chain -- 4. Pythagoras and the sages of India -- 5. 'This proud and troublesome thing, called man': Thomas Tryon, the Brahmin of Britain -- 6. John Evelyn: salvation in a salad -- 7. The Kabbala stripped naked -- 8. Men should be friends even to brute beasts: Isaac Newton and the origins of pagan theology -- 9. Atheists, deists and the Turkish spy -- [pt]. 2. Meatless medicine -- 10. Dieting with Dr. Descartes -- 11. Tooth and nail: Pierre Gassendi and the human appendix -- 12. The mitre and the microscope: Philippe Hecquet's Catholic fast food -- 13. Dr. Cheyne's sensible diet -- 14. Clarissa's calories -- 15. Rousseau and the bosoms of nature -- 16. The counter-vegetarian mascot: Pope's happy lamb -- 17. Antonio Cocchi and the cure for scurvy -- 18. The Sparing diet: Scotland's vegetarian dynasty -- [pt]. 3. Romantic dinners -- 19. Diet and diplomacy: eating beef in the land of the Holy Cow -- 20. John Zephaniah Holwell: Voltaire's Hindu prophet -- 21. The cry of nature: killing in the name of animal rights in the French Revolution -- 22. The Marquis de Valady faces the guillotine -- 23. Bloodless brothers -- 24. John 'Walking' Stewart and the utility of death -- 25. To kill a cat: Joseph Ritson's politics of atheism -- 26. Shelley and the return of nature -- 27. The Malthusian tragedy: feeding the world -- Epilogue: vegetarianism and the politics of ecology: Thoreau, Gandhi and Hitler -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index. Diet, Vegetarian -- ethnology -- Europe. Diet, Vegetarian -- ethnology -- India. Diet, Vegetarian -- history -- Europe. Diet, Vegetarian -- history -- India. Colonialism -- history -- Europe. Colonialism -- history -- India. Cultural Characteristics -- Europe. Cultural Characteristics -- India. History, Modern 1601- -- Europe. History, Modern 1601- -- India. Religion -- Europe. Religion -- India. Social Values -- Europe. Social Values -- India. Vegetarianism -- Europe -- History. Vegetarianism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism. Europeans -- India -- History -- 17th century. Europeans -- India -- History -- 18th century. V?g?tarisme -- Europe -- Histoire. V?g?tarisme -- Aspect religieux -- Hindouisme -- Histoire. Europ?ens -- Inde -- Histoire -- 17e si?cle. Europ?ens -- Inde -- Histoire -- 18e si?cle. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ. As New with a few small, very faint smudges to edges (barely noticed). A very nice copy. First U.S. edition, first printing (full number line).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393052206
• ISBN 13: 9780393052206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A cultural and political history of vegetarianism explains how puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists conspired to overthrow Western society's fierce devotion to the consumption of meat, tracing three centuries of the movement from eighteenth-century converts to Hinduism to present-day environmentalism and the animal rights movement.

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The Bloodless Revolution How Western Christianity and Eastern philosophy merged to spawn a political movement that had the prohibition of meat at its core. Full description