Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Windsor Selection S.)

by Mike Dash

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This is the story of the first great stock market boom in history. In 1630s Holland there was a frenzy over an exotic bloom newly imported from the East: the tulip. Over three years, rare tulip bulbs changed hands for sums that would have bought a house in Amsterdam: a single bulb sold for more than #300,000 at today's prices. Finally, there was a horrendous crash and prices collapsed overnight, ruining thousands. A historian with a special interest in mass hysteria, Mike Dash recreates the Holland of the 17th century and follows a couple of families who were deeply involved in the mania.
  • ISBN10 0609604392
  • ISBN13 9780609604397
  • Publish Date 29 February 2000 (first published 30 September 1999)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 December 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English