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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 2 Volume Paperback Set

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 2 Volume Paperback Set

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 2 Volume Paperback Set

Charles Mackay
March 2011
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    This book is a joy to read and remains relevant in the current era of financial boom and bust. Mackay examines animal magnetism, money-mania, tulip-mania, the history of hair and facial hair, the crusades, haunted houses, and much more. Throughout history, the most extraordinary fashions and trends have been followed unthinkingly, and occasionally this crowd fever has overtaken not only a town but a whole country; in some cases much of western Europe was engulfed simultaneously. The ability of some manias to be so far-reaching, and for common sense and intelligence to abandon such large populations seem incredible, though the book is as thought-provoking now as it was when first published in 1852.

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    March 2011
    Multiple copy pack
    9781108027649
    656 pages
    250 × 322 × 70 mm
    1.28kg
    Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC

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    Table of Contents

    • Volume 1:
    • 1. The Mississippi scheme
    • 2. The South-sea bubble
    • 3. The tulipomania
    • 4. The alchymists
    • 5. Modern prophecies
    • 6. Fortune-telling
    • 7. The magnetisers
    • 8. Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard. Volume 2:
    • 9. The crusades
    • 10. The witch mania
    • 11. The slow poisoners
    • 12. Haunted houses
    • 13. Popular follies of great cities
    • 14. Popular admiration of great thieves
    • 15. Duels and ordeals
    • 16. Relics
    • Index.
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