Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
By: Charles Mackay ; foreword by John Marks Templeton
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9781890151409
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling; Occultism; Social psychology; Impostors and imposture; Hallucinations and illusions; Early works to 1900
Other titles: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions.
Notes: "Reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852."

Reprint. Originally published as: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions. London : R. Bentley, 1841.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Mississippi scheme; title: The south-sea bubble; title: The tulipomania; title: The alchymists; title: Modern prophecies; title: Fortune-telling; title: The magnetisers; title: Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard; title: The crusades; title: The witch mania; title: The slow poisioners; title: Haunted houses; title: Popular follies of great cities; title: Popular admiration of great thieves; title: Duels and ordeals; title: Relics.