The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times - Hardcover

Stuart, Tristram

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393052206 ISBN 13: 9780393052206

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a comprehensive history of vegetarianism, drawing the different strands of the subject together in a way that has never been done before. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 628 pages; Description: xxvi, 628 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. "First published in Great Britain in 2006 by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, under the title: The bloodless revolution, radical vegetarians and the discovery of India". Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Vegetarianism --Europe --History --Religious aspects --Hinduism --Europeans --India --17th century --18th century.

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Reseña del editor:

The Bloodless Revolution is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists who embraced radical ideas from the East and conspired to overthrow Western society's voracious hunger for meat. At the heart of this compelling history are the stories of John Zephaniah Holwell, survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and John Stewart and John Oswald, who traveled to India in the eighteenth century, converted to the animal-friendly tenets of Hinduism, and returned to Europe to spread the word. Leading figures of the Enlightenmentamong them Rousseau, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklingave intellectual backing to the vegetarians, sowing the seeds for everything from Victorian soup kitchens to contemporary animal rights and environmentalism. Spanning across three centuries with reverberations to our current world, The Bloodless Revolution is a stunning debut from a young historian with enormous talent and promise.

Biografía del autor:

Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo and a prominent critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to television documentaries, radio and newspapers on the social and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless Revolution-'magnificently detailed and wide-ranging' (New Yorker)-was published in 2007, and Waste in 2009. A graduate of Cambridge University, he lives in England, where he rears pigs, chickens and bees.

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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393052206
• ISBN 13: 9780393052206
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 628