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{{short description|2006 book by Tristram Stuart}}
{{Infobox book
| name = The Bloodless Revolution
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| image = The Bloodless Revolution (book).jpg
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| author = [[Tristram Stuart]]
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| published = 2006 [[HarperCollins]]<br>[[W. W. Norton & Company]]
| media_type = Print
| pages = xxvi, 628, [24] plates
| isbn = 978-0-00-712892-1
| dewey= 613.2/6209 22
| congress= TX392 .S86 2007
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'''''The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarianism and the Discovery of India''''' is a 2006 non-fiction book by English author [[Tristram Stuart]]. It was published in the United States as '''''The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times'''''.<ref name="New York Times">{{Cite news|last=Rothstein|first=Edward|date=2007-02-25|title=The Way of No Flesh|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/books/review/Rothstein.t.html|access-date=2020-07-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

The book documents the history of [[vegetarianism]] in Europe over the last 400 years and argues that Western vegetarian diets were influenced by travellers' tales from [[India]].<ref name="New York Times"/><ref name="The Guardian">[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview7 "Green thoughts from abroad"]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 30 August 2020.</ref><ref name="Sengoopta">Sengoopta, Chandak (2006). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-bloodless-revolution-by-tristram-stuart-414135.html "The Bloodless Revolution, by Tristram Stuart"]. ''The Independent''. Retrieved 30 August 2020.</ref> Stuart explores the vegetarianism of [[Thomas Bushell (mining engineer)|Thomas Bushell]], [[John Robins (prophet)|John Robins]], [[Thomas Tryon]], [[George Cheyne (physician)|George Cheyne]], [[Roger Crab]], [[John Oswald (activist)|John Oswald]] and others.<ref name="New York Times"/><ref name="The Guardian"/><ref>[https://www.hermitary.com/thatch/?p=354 "Vegetarian hermits, 17th century England"]. Hermitary. Retrieved 30 August 2020.</ref>

==Reception==

Historian [[Chandak Sengoopta]] commented that "''The Bloodless Revolution'' is a wonderful book, crammed with original research and written with verve, wit and passion. The most enthralling work of cultural history I have read in years, it brings out the political, ethical and environmental implications of our dietary choices without any preachiness."<ref name="Sengoopta"/> Philosopher [[A. C. Grayling]] praised the historical research of the book.<ref>Grayling, A. C. (2006). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-bloodless-revolution-by-tristram-stuart-6230484.html "The Bloodless Revolution, by Tristram Stuart"]. ''The Independent''. Retrieved 30 August 2020.</ref>

The book was positively reviewed by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' who suggested that "Stuart offers a masterful social and cultural history of a movement that changed the ways people think about the food they eat."<ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-393-05220-6 "The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times"]. [[Publishers Weekly]]. Retrieved 30 August 2020.</ref> A review by ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' described it as "Culinary and cultural history intertwined: readable, and endlessly interesting."<ref>[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tristram-stuart/the-bloodless-revolution/ "The Bloodless Revolution"]. ''Kirkus Reviews''. Retrieved 30 August 2020.</ref>

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