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.
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.
当做历史故事书看是个不错的消遣,除了相关问题的深入研究需要史料记载,其他的阅读价值不是很大。 放大了历史细节,书中记载了很多关于郁金香的事情,详细介绍了郁金香泡沫发生的始终,很少提及作者自己的想法。在写相关论文时可以把本书作为参考资料。 书中的内容除了历史相...
評分说实话,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...
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