Tulipmania : Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age /

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In the 1630s 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 bu...

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Autor principal: Goldgar, Anne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Temas:
Netherlands > Economic conditions > 17th century.
Netherlands > Social conditions > 17th century.
Netherlands > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Social values > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Tulip Mania, 1634-1637.
HISTORY / General.
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • One: Something Strange
  • Two: Art & Flowers
  • Three: Bloemisten
  • Four: Grieving Money
  • Five: Bad Faith
  • Epilogue: Cabbage Fever
  • Glossary
  • A note on money
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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