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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.
作者简介
MIKE DASH is a Cambridge-educated writer and magazine publisher and author of five books--Tulipomania, Batavia’s Graveyard, Thug, Satan’s Circus and The First Family. A professional historian before he became a writer, he has written articles for The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and The Fortean Times. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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评分This is a fun book written by a historian. It certainly gave me both the pleasure and the knowledge I expected from the reading, in spite of being a bit excessive in detailed description by an economist's standard. In the last capture, the author gave his n...
评分 评分说实话，看这本书的起因倒是因为比特币。很多人将这类区块链货币比作曾经的郁金香热，虽然多多少少知道这起事件是一场泡沫，对此的了解也就仅限于历史书上的一句话。众所周知的，历史上上的一句话的背后可能有无数重要的细节（“我们走了一些弯路”）。于是，顺理成章的找来这...
评分This is a fun book written by a historian. It certainly gave me both the pleasure and the knowledge I expected from the reading, in spite of being a bit excessive in detailed description by an economist's standard. In the last capture, the author gave his n...
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