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Tulipmania : money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age / Anne Goldgar.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldgar, Anne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tulip Mania, 1634-1637.
- Social values--Netherlands--History--17th century.
- Social values.
- Netherlands--Economic conditions--17th century.
- Netherlands.
- Netherlands--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Netherlands--Social conditions--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the 1630's the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn't) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn't like that. As Anne
- Contents:
- Something strange
- Art & flowers
- Bloemisten
- Grieving money
- Bad faith
- Epilogue: Cabbage fever.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-397) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226201265
- 9786611956882
- 9780226301266
- 0226301265
- 9781281956880
- 1281956880
- 9780226301303
- 0226301303
- OCLC:
- 435643691
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