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Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar

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Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar

Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar
English | May 15, 2007 | ISBN: 0226301257 | 458 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

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 bulbs.