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Record Nr.

UNISA996248299003316

Autore

Goldgar Anne

Titolo

Tulipmania : money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age / / Anne Goldgar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

0226201265

0-226-30126-5

1-281-95688-0

9786611956882

0-226-30130-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Classificazione

NN 4020

Disciplina

330.9492/03

Soggetti

Tulip Mania, 1634-1637

Social values - Netherlands - History - 17th century

Netherlands Economic conditions 17th century

Netherlands Social life and customs 17th century

Netherlands Social conditions 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-397) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Something strange -- Art & flowers -- Bloemisten -- Grieving money -- Bad faith -- Epilogue: Cabbage fever.

Sommario/riassunto

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