Author: Elizabeth Sesso Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1480992615 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 113
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Yellow Tulips By: Elizabeth Sesso Anastasia struggles to understand what the psychic meant about a previous life. And a man in that life? What’s that about? He did mean a previous life, she confirmed it with him. But how long ago? What does this mean? Is this real? Is she going crazy? Anastasia meets with a psychologist, hoping he can help her. In order for the psychologist to meet with her, he has to cancel his regular father-daughter lunch. Their lives intertwine throughout Yellow Tulips. Join Elizabeth Sesso’s narrative and you won’t be disappointed with the journey.
Author: Anne Goldgar Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226301303 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 458
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In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival research, she lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths, Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age. “Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: ‘Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.’. . . She tells a new story.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times
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