Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds [recurso electrónico] / Charles Mackay

By: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
Material type: Continuing resourceContinuing resourceAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: Project Gutenberg, 2008Subject(s): Common fallacies | Hallucinations and illusions | Delusions | Occultism -- Early works to 1900 | Swindlers and swindling | Alchemy | Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects | Investments -- Psychological aspects | Impostors and imposture | Social psychologyLOC classification: AZOnline resources: Click here to access online
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.
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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.

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