Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
by Charles Mackay
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About this eBook
- Author
- Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
- Title
- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
- Credits
- Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- AZ: General Works: History of scholarship and learning, The humanities
- Subject
- Common fallacies
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 636
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/636
- Release Date
- August 1, 1996
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS
- 2.By Charles Mackay — Author Of — "The Thames And Its Tributaries," "The Hope Of The World," Etc. — VOL I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. PUBLISHER IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY. 1841.
- 3.NATIONAL DELUSIONS.
- 4.THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME
- 5.THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE
- 6.LIST OF BUBBLES.
- 7.THE TULIPOMANIA.
- 8.RELICS.
- 9.MODERN PROPHECIES.
- 10.POPULAR ADMIRATION FOR GREAT THIEVES.
- 11.INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION ON THE HAIR AND BEARD.
- 12.DUELS AND ORDEALS
- 13.THE LOVE OF THE MARVELLOUS AND THE DISBELIEF OF THE TRUE.
- 14.POPULAR FOLLIES IN GREAT CITIES
- 15.THE O.P. MANIA.
- 16.THE THUGS, or PHANSIGARS.
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