Edition |
First American edition. |
Description |
xxvi, 628 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm |
Note |
Previous ed. has subtitle: Radical vegetarians and the discovery of India. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [450]-515) and index. |
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 -- |
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[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. |
Subject |
Diet, Vegetarian -- ethnology -- Europe.
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Diet, Vegetarian -- ethnology -- India.
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Diet, Vegetarian -- history -- Europe.
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Diet, Vegetarian -- history -- India.
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Colonialism -- history -- Europe.
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Colonialism -- history -- India.
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Cultural Characteristics -- Europe.
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Cultural Characteristics -- India.
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History, Modern 1601- -- Europe.
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History, Modern 1601- -- India.
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Religion -- Europe.
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Religion -- India.
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Social Values -- Europe.
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Social Values -- India.
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Vegetarianism -- Europe -- History.
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Vegetarianism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
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Europeans -- India -- History -- 17th century.
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Europeans -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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ISBN |
9780393052206 |
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0393052206 |
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