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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay

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  • Book language: English
  • 902 pages

Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a historical survey of mass hysteria, financial bubbles, and popular follies. Essays on episodes such as the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania examine how crowds can embrace illusion and excess. It offers listeners an engaging look at recurring patterns of collective belief.

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MEMOIRS
OF
EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR
DELUSIONS
AND THE
Madness of Crowds.

BΏ CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D.
AUTHOR OF “EGERIA,” “THE SALAMANDRINE,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.
N’en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce,
En ce monde il n’est point de parfaite sagesse;
Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soîns
Ne diffèrent entre eux que du plus ou du moins.
BOILEAU.
LONDON:
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY,
227 STRAND.
1852.

CONTENTS.
INDEX.
FOOTNOTES.
Volume I.
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Contents.
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List of Engravings.
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Preface.
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The Mississippi Scheme.
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The South-Sea Bubble.
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The Tulipomania.

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The Alchymists.
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Modern Prophecies.
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Fortune-Telling.
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The Magnetisers.
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Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard.
Volume II.
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Contents.
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List of Engravings.
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The Crusades.
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The Witch Mania.
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The Slow Poisoners.
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Haunted Houses.
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Popular Follies of Great Cities.

CPopular Admiration of Great Thieves.
Ouels and Ordeals.
CRelics.

A garden landscape.
THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME: GARDENS OF THE HOTEL DE SOISSO
MEMOIRS
OF
EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS.
VOLUME I.
A coat of arms.
THE BUBBLERS’ ARMS—PROSPERITY.
LONDON:
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY,
227 STRAND.
1852.
MEMOIRS
OF

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