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Titolo: |
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions [[electronic resource]]
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Sheba Blake Publishing, 2014 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (2175 p.) |
Disciplina: | 001.9/6 |
Soggetto topico: | Common fallacies |
Delusions | |
Impostors and imposture | |
Investments -- Psychological aspects | |
Occultism -- Early works to 1900 | |
Social psychology | |
Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects | |
Swindlers and swindling | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-312-32139-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910155508603321 |
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