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

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

Anne Goldgar

425 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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