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).
Vegetarianism's political and ecological imperatives have long wanted for a historian capable of excavating their roots. Julia Hauser has offered an electric, wholly original account of the nationalist and international politics, racial paradigms, and unexpected encounters between German, Swiss, American, and Indian thinkers as they crafted modern vegetarianism's moral stance. -- Benjamin Siegel, author of <i>Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India</i>