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发表于2024-09-22
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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.
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.
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...
評分 評分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...
Tulipomania pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024