Tulipmania Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age

Name: Tulipmania Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
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ISBN: 9780226301266

ISBN-10: 0226301265

ISBN-13: 9780226301266

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anne Goldgar

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In the 1630s 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 storyhow 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 Goldgar reveals inTulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 446
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.606



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction



Something Strange



Artnbsp;& Flowers



Bloemisten



Grieving Money



Bad Faith Epilogue: Cabbage Fever Glossary A Note on Money


Abbreviations


Notes


Index