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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused Hardcover - 2000
by Mike Dash
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In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike. For almost a year rare bulbs changed hands for incredible and ever-increasing sums, until single flowers were being sold for more than the cost of a house. Historians would come to call it tulipomania. It was the first futures market in history, and like so many of the ones that would follow, it crashed spectacularly, plunging speculators and investors into economic ruin and despair.This is the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted--and beautiful--commodity in Europe. Historian Mike Dash vividly narrates the story of this amazing flower and the colorful cast of characters--Turkish sultans, Yugoslav soldiers, French botanists, and Dutch tavern keepers--who were centuries apart historically and worlds apart culturally, but who all had one thing in common: tulipomania.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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They came from all over Holland, dressed like crows in black from head to foot and journeying along frozen tracks rendered treacherous by the scars of a thousand hooves and narrow wheels.
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- Title Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
- Author Mike Dash
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York
- Date February 29, 2000
- ISBN 9780609604397 / 0609604392
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.59 x 5.72 x 1.01 in (21.82 x 14.53 x 2.57 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Netherlands - History - 17th century, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99039186
- Dewey Decimal Code 635.934
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