The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments :: xiii Introduction :: 1 chap ter one Proto-vegetarianism :: 10 chap ter t wo Transitional Years :: 39 chap ter three The American Vegetarian Society :: 59 chap ter four Vegetarianism and Its Discontents :: 93 chap ter five Looks Like Meat, Tastes Like Meat, Smells Like Meat :: 115 chap ter six Would You Like to Be a Successful Vegetarian? :: 147 chap ter seven Muscular Vegetarianism :: 183 Conclusion :: 204 Notes :: 213 Bibliography :: 245 Index :: 265 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations First church edifice of the Philadelphia Bible Christian Church, 1823–44 :: 17 Title page of Sylvester Graham’s A Lecture on Epidemic Diseases Generally, and Particularly the Spasmodic Cholera (1838) :: 23 Title page of William Alcott’s Library of Health (1837) :: 43 Title page of William Alcott’s Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men (1838) :: 44 Announcement of the fourth annual meeting of the American Vegetarian Society on August 24, 1853 :: 72 Title page of Miriam Davis Colt’s Went to Kansas (1862) :: 84 The Great Republican Reform Party, Calling on Their Candidate (New York: Currier & Ives, 1856) :: 96 “The Vegetarians,” Vanity Fair, October 6, 1860 :: 104 Ad for Protose and Nuttolene in Battle Creek Foods for Health (1920) :: 133 Title page of Mrs. Rorer’s Vegetable Cookery and Meat Substitutes (1909) :: 138 “The Vegetarian Delegates to the World’s Fair,” Chicago, 1893 :: 159 Vegetarian annex at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 :: 163 Advertisements in Vegetarian Magazine, November 1907 :: 174 Patrons at New York’s Physical Culture restaurant, 1902 :: 191 Vegetarian bodybuilder A. W. Wefel, 1909 :: 193 This page intentionally left blank ...