A Taste for Purity: An Entangled History of Vegetarianism - Paperback
by Julia Hauser
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Availability:In StockContributor:Julia HauserSeries:Columbia Studies in International and Global HistoryPublish date:2023-12-05Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231207539ISBN-10:231207530UPC:9780231207539Book Category:History, CookingBook Subcategory:Modern, History, WorldBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.98 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCZ97P6Y7F
A Taste for Purity: An Entangled History of Vegetarianism
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 model. In colonial India, where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized, new...
Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231207539ISBN-10:231207530UPC:9780231207539Book Category:History, CookingBook Subcategory:Modern, History, WorldBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.98 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCZ97P6Y7F
Julia Hauser is senior lecturer in modern history at the University of Kassel. She is the author of German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut: Competing Missions (2015) and a coeditor of Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond (2019).
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