Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-384) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Bill of fare to the feast: the whats and whys of vegetarianism -- The human in prehistory -- Eastern religions and practice -- Pythagoreanism -- Greek philosophy and Roman imperium -- Judaism and the earlier Christian heritage -- Bogomils, Cathars, and the later medieval mind -- The humanism of the Renaissance -- The Cartesians and their adversaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Preaching without practising: from Mandeville and Pope to Goldsmith and Wagner -- Militant advocates: from Oswald and Ritson to Shelley, Phillips and Gompertz -- The Victorians, the Edwardians, and the founding of the vegetarian society -- Vegetarians and vegans in the twentieth century -- Vegetarianism in North America -- Postscript : Prospects.
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