Taste for Purity - An Entangled History of Vegetarianism

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Hauser, Hauser Julia
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9780231207522
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20752-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, Vegetarian cookery, COOKING / Vegetarian, History: specific events and topics, Vegetarian Cookery and vegetarianism, history; cooking