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Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds
by Mackay, Charles
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- ISBN-13: 9780374151249
- ISBN: 0374151245
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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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.Mackay, Charles is the author of 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds' with ISBN 9780374151249 and ISBN 0374151245.
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