The Bloodless Revolution is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists who embraced radical ideas from the East and conspired to overthrow Western society's voracious hunger for meat. At the heart of this compelling history are the stories of John Zephaniah Holwell, survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and John Stewart and John Oswald, who traveled to India in the eighteenth century, converted to the animal-friendly tenets of Hinduism, and returned to Europe to spread the word. Leading figures of the Enlightenmentamong them Rousseau, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklingave intellectual backing to the vegetarians, sowing the seeds for everything from Victorian soup kitchens to contemporary animal rights and environmentalism.Spanning across three centuries with reverberations to our current world, The Bloodless Revolution is a stunning debut from a young historian with enormous talent and promise.

特拉姆．史都華（Tristram Stuart）

畢業於劍橋大學,現居英國。曾任印度報章雜誌自由撰稿者、科索沃農業更新及緊急避難所計畫負責人。身為著名的食品工業評論家,特拉姆?史都華經常在電視記錄片、廣播節目及報紙上針對食物議題發表其社會與環保方面的觀點。本書為其首本著作,於二○○七年出版後即獲得紐約客雜誌（New Yorker）「巨細靡遺且內容廣泛」的好評。由於對全球食物浪費問 題的傾力投入,2011年獲頒環保工作者最高榮譽「蘇菲獎」( The Sophie Prize ),另著有《浪費：全球糧食危機解密》（Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal,繁體中文版2012年4月遠足 文化出版）。

譯者簡介

丘德真

曾任《破週報》主編；現為文字自由工作者,定居澳洲。

李靜怡

紐約州立大學電影系畢業,副修社會學系。曾任破報記者,現為影像工作者與鬼丘鬼鏟藝術團體成員。