Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155508603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Sheba Blake Publishing, 2014
• ISBN: 1-312-32139-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (2175 p.)
• Disciplina: 001.9/6
• Soggetti: Common fallacies; Delusions; Impostors and imposture; Investments -- Psychological aspects; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Social psychology; Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects; Swindlers and swindling
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS -- PREFACE -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- VOLUME I -- MONEY MANIA -- THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- LIST OF BUBBLES -- THE TULIPOMANIA -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- THE ALCHYMISTS -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- INFERIOR ADEPTS OF THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES -- INFERIOR ALCHYMISTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- PRESENT STATE OF ALCHYMY -- INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION ON THE HAIR AND BEARD -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- VOLUME II -- THE CRUSADES -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- THE WITCH MANIA -- THE SLOW POISONERS -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- HAUNTED HOUSES -- POPULAR FOLLIES OF GREAT CITIES -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- POPULAR ADMIRATION OF GREAT THIEVES -- DUELS AND ORDEALS -- ⠀唀渀琀椀琀氀攀搀) -- RELICS -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, published in 1841, is the history of popular folly in three parts: ""National Delusions"", ""Peculiar Follies"", and ; ""Philosophical Delusions"". These break down into: economic bubbles, alchemy, crusades, witch-hunts, prophecies, fortune-telling, magnetisers (the influence of one's imagination in curing disease), shape of a person's hair or beard (in its influence on politics and religion), murder by poisoning, haunted houses, collective foolishness of great cities, popular admiration of great thieves, due