The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times
By Tristram Stuart.
Description
How Western Christianity and Eastern philosophy merged to spawn a political movement that had the prohibition of meat at its core.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 th...
ISBN(s)
0393052206, 9780393052206
