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Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South Sea Bubble, Witch Mania, Alchemy, the Crusades, Fortune-telling, Haunted Houses, and even 'Tulipomania' are only some of the subjects covered in this book, which is given a contemporary perspective through Professor Norman Stone's lively new Introduction.… (mere)
lorax: Tulipomania is a very readable modern history of one of the more interesting episodes detailed in Extraordinary Popular Delusions, the Dutch tulip bubble of the 1600s.
Det meste af denne bog er interesseløst nu om stunder, men de tre historier om børsbobler i det 17. og 18. århundrede er stadig meget læseværdige, for den slags sker stadig. Den korteste og bedste af disse historier handler om den hollandske tulipangalskab og den er oversat til dansk og ligger til gratis nedhentning på nettet. ( )
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(To Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions) "Il est bon de connaître les délires de l'esprit humain. Chaque peuple a ses folies plus ou moins grossiéres."
Millot
(To Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds) N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Gréce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soins Ne different entre eux que du plus ou du moins.
Boileau.
Tilegnelse
Første ord
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(Preface) The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations and crimes.
(Preface to edition of 1852) In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do.
(Chapter 1) The personal character and career of one man are so intimately connected with the great scheme of the years 1719 and 1720 that a history of the Mississippi madness can have no fitter introduction than a sketch of the life of its great author John Law.
Citater
Sidste ord
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There are few who would not join with Cowley in the extravagant wish introduced in his lines "written while sitting in a chair made of the remains of the ship in which Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world:" "And I mystelf, who now love quiet too, Almost as much as any chair can do, Would yet a journey take An old wheel of that chariot to see, Which Phaeton so rashly brake."
Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South Sea Bubble, Witch Mania, Alchemy, the Crusades, Fortune-telling, Haunted Houses, and even 'Tulipomania' are only some of the subjects covered in this book, which is given a contemporary perspective through Professor Norman Stone's lively new Introduction.
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