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Anne Goldgar

    Tulipmania
    • 2008

      Tulipmania

      • 446 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
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      In 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as history would have it, folly. The author lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think.

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