The Heretic's Feast: A History of VegetarianismUPNE, 1996 - 402 sider In this fascinating and informative story of vegetarianism since pre-historic times, Colin Spencer describes its religious, philosophical, and social aspects, introducing such prominent and often colorful believers as Pythagoras, Ovid, Leonardo, Sir Thomas More, Shelley, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Tolstoy, Shaw, Gandhi, and Hitler. Gracefully written and meticulously researched, the book presents not only a surprising slice through world history but also an unusual story of dissidence and revolt. |
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In the Beginning | 1 |
Toolmakers and Hunters | 30 |
The Pythagorean Enigma Empedocles The Pythagoreans | 68 |
Plato to Porphyry | 87 |
Early Christianity | 108 |
Gnostic Sects and the Manicheans | 130 |
The Renaissance | 180 |
The Clockwork Universe | 201 |
The Rise of Humanism | 223 |
Docks and Dandelions | 252 |
Sunlight and Sandals | 295 |
Sentient or Machine? | 319 |
Afterword | 344 |
The Rise of the Vegetarian Cookery Book | 358 |
A Select Bibliography | 384 |
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