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Item Details
Title:
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EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS (BARNES & NOBLE LIBRARY OF ESSENTIAL READING)
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By: |
Charles Mackay, David Joe Schneider |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0760755825 |
ISBN 13: |
9780760755822 |
Publisher: |
BARNES & NOBLE INC |
Pub. date: |
12 August, 2004 |
Pages: |
656 |
Description: |
Presents a study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. This title chronicles accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. It also surveys controversial people and movements of the past: necromancy, Father Hell and Magnetism, Anthony Mesmer and Mesmerism, and the Crusades. |
Synopsis: |
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" is a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. Chronicled here are accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions that have sprung from ideas, beliefs, and causes that still have champions today: the prophecies of Nostradamus, the coming of comets and Judgment Day, the Rosicrucians, and astrology. The book also surveys controversial people and movements of the past: necromancy, Father Hell and Magnetism, Anthony Mesmer and Mesmerism, the Crusades, sorcery and the burning of witches, not to mention the popularity of murder by slow poisoning. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Barnes & Noble Inc |
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