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Title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Contents: The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
Credits: Jonathan Ingram, Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Author: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
EBook No.: 24518
Published: Feb 5, 2008
Downloads: 1467
Language: English
Subject: Social psychology
Subject: Swindlers and swindling
Subject: Impostors and imposture
Subject: Alchemy
Subject: Delusions
Subject: Occultism -- Early works to 1900
Subject: Investments -- Psychological aspects
Subject: Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects
Subject: Hallucinations and illusions
Subject: Common fallacies
LoCC: General Works: History of scholarship and learning, The humanities
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Contents: The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
Credits: Jonathan Ingram, Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Author: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
EBook No.: 24518
Published: Feb 5, 2008
Downloads: 1467
Language: English
Subject: Social psychology
Subject: Swindlers and swindling
Subject: Impostors and imposture
Subject: Alchemy
Subject: Delusions
Subject: Occultism -- Early works to 1900
Subject: Investments -- Psychological aspects
Subject: Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects
Subject: Hallucinations and illusions
Subject: Common fallacies
LoCC: General Works: History of scholarship and learning, The humanities
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.