Tulipmania [[electronic resource] ] : money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age / / Anne Goldgar
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Goldgar Anne
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Tulipmania [[electronic resource] ] : money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age / / Anne Goldgar
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330.9492/03 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 |
| Social values - Netherlands - History - 17th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Netherlands Economic conditions 17th century |
| Netherlands Social life and customs 17th century | |
| Netherlands Social conditions 17th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | monetary, understanding, learning, academic, scholarly, research, holland, netherlands, time period, era, history, historical, 1600s, 1630s, tulips, flowers, floral, plants, flora, merchants, sales, culture, cultural, artisan, nobility, class, bulbs, economy, economics, guild, crowds, popular, finance, financial, archival, legend, myth, society |
| Classificazione: | NN 4020 |
| 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 |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tulipmania |
| ISBN: | 0226201265 |
| 0-226-30126-5 | |
| 1-281-95688-0 | |
| 9786611956882 | |
| 0-226-30130-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782440403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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