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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge

  • Date Published: March 2011
  • availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
  • format: Multiple copy pack
  • isbn: 9781108027649

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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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    • Date Published: March 2011
    • format: Multiple copy pack
    • isbn: 9781108027649
    • length: 656 pages
    • dimensions: 250 x 322 x 70 mm
    • weight: 1.28kg
    • availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
  • 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.

  • Author

    Charles Mackay

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