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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
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
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