Tulipmania - Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date of Publication 25 May 2007
- ISBN 9780226301259
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 239x163x33 mm
- Weight 768 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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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Making use of extensive archival research she lays waste to the legends revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age.; She shows how Dutch citizens became enchanted by the combination of art and science that made up a tulip bulb and how experts in tulips appeared in communities of merchants and craftsmen. She also illustrates vividly how the plague the concerns of capitalism and the loss of trust among individuals in a rapidly changing society combined to create the cultural crisis that was tulipmania. Throughout this bracing history Goldgar writes elegantly about everything from intellectual communities to the economics of speculation to the beauty of tulips themselves. Far more than simply dispelling myths "Tulipmania" brings the Dutch Golden Age to life.
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