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Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / Charles Mackay ; introduction by Norman Stone.

By: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889.
Contributor(s): Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889. Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Wordsworth reference.Publisher: Ware : Wordsworth Reference, 1995Description: xx, 724 p.,[11] leaves of plates : ill, ports ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1853263494 (m).Subject(s): Occultism -- Early works to 1900 | Delusions | Impostors and imposture | Swindlers and swindling | Social psychologyDDC classification: 001.96
Contents:
The Mississippi Scheme -- The South-Sea Bubble -- The Tulipomania -- The Alchymists -- Modern Prophecies -- Fortune-Telling -- The Magnetisers -- The Crusades -- The Witch Mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted Houses -- Popular Follies of Great Cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 001.96 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00016027
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Introduction by Professor Norman Stone. This classic catalogue of some of the more outre enthusiasms - speculative, social, religious and just plain daft - serves as a salutary reminder that the follies of mankind are not unique to the modern world. 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. AUTHOR: Charles Mackay (1812-1889) was a Scottish journalist, poet and author. He is remembered for his book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', a history of popular follies which is now valued as a history of social psychology and psychopathology.

Includes index.

The Mississippi Scheme -- The South-Sea Bubble -- The Tulipomania -- The Alchymists -- Modern Prophecies -- Fortune-Telling -- The Magnetisers -- The Crusades -- The Witch Mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted Houses -- Popular Follies of Great Cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 The Mississippi Scheme
  • 2 The South-Sea Bubble
  • 3 The Tulipomania