The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India. Tristram Stuart

      THE BLOODLESS REVOLUTION

       Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India

      TRISTRAM STUART

       DEDICATION

      To my father

      SIMON STUART

      (1930–2002)

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       DEDICATION

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

I: GRASS ROOTS

1 Bushell’s Bushel, Bacon’s Bacon and The Great Instauration

2 John Robins: The Shakers’ God

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

II: 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

       III: 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 to Nature

       27 The Malthusian Tragedy: Feeding the World

       EPILOGUE

       ABBREVIATIONS

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       NOTES

       COPYRIGHT

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      PLATES

      SECTION ONE

       Studio of Jan Brueghel the Elder, ‘Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden’, Flemish, early 17th century. Leeds Museums and Galleries (Lotherton Hall) UK/ The Bridgeman Art Library, London (ref: LMG 142825)

       Frans Snyders, ‘The Butcher’s Shop’ c.1640– 50. Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia/The Bridgeman Art Library, London (ref: XIR 47570)

       Jan Brueghel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens, ‘Adam and Eve in Paradise’, c.1615. Mauritshuis,