Bloodless Revolution Cl

by Stuart,Tristam

• ISBN13: 9780393052206
• ISBN10: 0393052206
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Spanning across three 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, it sheds surprising light on values still central to modern society. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xv
INTRODUCTION	xvii
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
ABBREVIATIONS	448
BIBLIOGRAPHY	450
NOTES	518
INDEX	608