Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
By: Charles Mackay
Publisher: Maestro Reprints
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Lexington, Ky.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781463740511
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling; Occultism; Delusions; Impostors and imposture; Social psychology; Early works to 1900
Work titles: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions
Notes: Originally published in 1841 under title: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions. Published with current title in 1980.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1] 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. [v. 2] The Crusades; title: The witch mania; title: The slow poisoners; title: Haunted houses; title: Popular follies of great cities; title: Popular admiration of great thieves; title: Duels and ordeals; title: Relics.