A Taste for Purity : : An Entangled History of Vegetarianism /

A Taste for Purity : : An Entangled History of Vegetarianism / / Julia Hauser.

In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization, this movement idealized South Asia as a...

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Hauser, Julia,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. In Search of Purity: European Vegetarians and Their Spheres of Projection
  • Chapter Two. Evolution, Cows, and Communalism: Vegetarianism and the Colonial Encounter in India, ca. 1880- 1912
  • Chapter Three. The Chicago Effect: Internationalizing Vegetarianism
  • Chapter Four. Between Buddha, Gandhi, Sufism, and Militant Masculinity: Relating to South Asia in Interwar German and Swiss Vegetarianism
  • Chapter Five. Race, Nation, and Peace: (Re- )Internationalizing Vegetarianism After the Second World War
  • Epilogue
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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