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The bloodless revolution : a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times
- Title
- The bloodless revolution : a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times / Tristram Stuart.
- Author
- Stuart, Tristram.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 628 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Previous ed. has subtitle: Radical vegetarians and the discovery of India.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [450]-515) and index.
- Contents
- I. Grass roots -- 1. Bushell's bushel, Bacon's bacon and The great instauration -- 2. John Robins : the Shakers' God -- 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 -- II. 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 -- III. 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-6126
- ISBN
- 9780393052206
- 0393052206
- LCCN
- 2006051018
- OCLC
- 71509072
- Author
- Stuart, Tristram.
- Title
- The bloodless revolution : a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times / Tristram Stuart.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [450]-515) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-6126