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Author Spencer, Colin, 1933-

Title Vegetarianism : A History.

Publication Info. Havertown : Grub Street, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (401 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword for 2nd Edition; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 In the Beginning; The Decisive Primate; The Aquatic Ape?; Toolmakers and Gatherers; Migration; The Emergence of Humans; Gathering Food; Taming the Environment; Surplus Food; Altars and Gardens; 2 Pythagoras and His Inheritance; Meat in Homer; The Life of Pythagoras; The Teaching; Beans; The School at Croton; Stories; Religious Practice; The Orphic Religion; Egypt; Zoroaster; The Pythagorean Enigma; Empedocles; The Pythagoreans; Aristoxenus; The Heritage of Pythagoras; 3 India; The Indus Valley
The Aryan InvasionHinduism; Buddhism; Jainism; Asoka; 4 Plato to Porphyry; Plato at Table; Greek Food; Aristotle; The Stoics; Rome; Plutarch; The Neoplatonists; Porphyry; 5 Early Christianity; St Paulâ#x80;#x99;s Gospel; The Essenes; The Dietary Laws; Christian Expansion; Asceticism; Meat and Milk; The Quail Plague; Clean or Unclean; 6 Gnostic Sects and the Manicheans; Whence Came the True Voice of God?; The Equality of Women; Gnostic Variety; Manicheanism; Augustine of Hippo; 7 The Bogomils, the Cathars and the Orthodox Church; The Paulicians; The Massalians; The Bogomils; Royal Converts
Growing HeresiesPure and Vegetarian; Cathar Doctrine; The Albigensian Crusade; Two Christian Saints; The Criminal Prosecution of Animals; Articles of Faith; Medieval Fasting; 8 The Renaissance; Riches and Famine; Dissident Voices; Renaissance Man Himself; Food as Secular Ritual; Rediscoveries; Explorations; 9 The Clockwork Universe; Cartesianism; More Dissidents; Thomas Tryon; Soul Searching; To Eat Meat or Not?; Two Poets; Pierre Bayle; 10 The Rise of Humanism; The Reforming Spirit; Belief and Scepticism; Voltaire; Paine; Paley; Franklin; Ritson and the Cry of Nature
The Agricultural RevolutionShelley; 11 Docks and Dandelions; Swedenborgâ#x80;#x99;s Disciples; Concordium; Ramsgate and After; The Indian Mutiny; Animal Slaughter; The United States; London and Reform; George Bernard Shaw; Wagner; Croydon and the Simple Life; Animal Welfare; Tolstoy and the Dukhobors; Gandhi and the Danielites; The Flowering of the Ethic; 12 Sunlight and Sandals; Poverty and War; Criticism and Ridicule; Raw Foods; Hitler; Between the Wars; The Order of the Cross and Mazdaznanism; The Second World War; 13 Sentient or Machine?; The Counter-Culture; Modern Farming
Caring for the EnvironmentThe Concept of Pure Food; Government Bungling; Genetic Engineering; Class; The Reason Why; The Future; Afterword; Appendix 1: The Later History of Buddhism; Appendix 2: Manicheanism in China; Appendix 3: Modern Hinduism; Appendix 4: The Rise of the Vegetarian Cookery Book; Notes; A Select Bibliography; Index
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Subject Vegetarianism -- History.
Vegetarianism.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Spencer, Colin Vegetarianism : A History Havertown : Grub Street,c2016 9781910690215
ISBN 9781911621508 (electronic book)
1911621505 (electronic book)