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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author:: Charles Mackay (author)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Wordsworth Editions
Categories:: History and skepticism
Publisher series:: Wordsworth Reference Series
Publication year:: 1995
Original publication year:: 1841
ISBN:: 978-1-85326-349-1
Pages:: 606
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Introduction

The Author

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Edition of 1852

Money Mania — The Mississippi Scheme

The South-Sea Bubble

The Tulipomania

The Alchemists

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

Index