03203nam 22005653u 450 991015550860332120221215211040.01-312-32139-3(CKB)3710000000227894(EBL)1773579(OCoLC)889675678(MiAaPQ)EBC1773579(Au-PeEL)EBL1773579(EXLCZ)99371000000022789420151005d2014|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions[electronic resource]New York Sheba Blake Publishing20141 online resource (2175 p.)Description based upon print version of record.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. 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, dueCommon fallaciesDelusionsImpostors and impostureInvestments -- Psychological aspectsOccultism -- Early works to 1900Social psychologyStock exchanges -- Psychological aspectsSwindlers and swindlingCommon fallacies.Delusions.Impostors and imposture.Investments -- Psychological aspects.Occultism -- Early works to 1900.Social psychology.Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects.Swindlers and swindling.001.9/6AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910155508603321Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions2988400UNINA