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- Title: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
- Author : Charles Mackay
- Release Date : January 12, 2004
- Genre: Sociology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4689 KB
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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.