A Taste for Purity
An Entangled History of Vegetarianism
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2023
368 pages
978-0-231-55700-9 (ISBN)
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Julia Hauser explores the global history of vegetarianism from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She demonstrates that vegetarians in India and the West shared notions of purity, which drew some toward not only internationalism and anticolonialism but also racism, nationalism, and violence.
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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).
Content
Introduction
1. In Search of Purity: European Vegetarians and Their Spheres of Projection
2. Evolution, Cows, and Communalism: Vegetarianism and the Colonial Encounter in India, ca. 1880-1912
3. The Chicago Effect: Internationalizing Vegetarianism
4. Between Buddha, Gandhi, Sufism, and Militant Masculinity: Relating to South Asia in Interwar German and Swiss Vegetarianism
5. Race, Nation, and Peace: (Re-)Internationalizing Vegetarianism After the Second World War
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. In Search of Purity: European Vegetarians and Their Spheres of Projection
2. Evolution, Cows, and Communalism: Vegetarianism and the Colonial Encounter in India, ca. 1880-1912
3. The Chicago Effect: Internationalizing Vegetarianism
4. Between Buddha, Gandhi, Sufism, and Militant Masculinity: Relating to South Asia in Interwar German and Swiss Vegetarianism
5. Race, Nation, and Peace: (Re-)Internationalizing Vegetarianism After the Second World War
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
