Tulipomania

Name: Tulipomania
Brand: Broadway Books
SKU: 9780609807651
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The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

Autor: Mike Dash

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In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice...

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Autor

Mike Dash

Limbă

engleză

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Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2001

Pagini

288

EAN

9780609807651

ISBN

060980765X

Enbook ID

11008679

Editura

Broadway Books

Greutate

227

Dimensiuni

140 x 210 x 19

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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.

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