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

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007. First U.S. edition, first printing (full number line). 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. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ. As New with a few small, very faint smudges to edges (barely noticed). A very nice copy. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780393052206

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. Végétarisme -- Europe -- Histoire. Végétarisme -- Aspect religieux -- Hindouisme -- Histoire. Européens -- Inde -- Histoire -- 17e siècle. Européens -- Inde -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.