Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Volume I

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Volume I

Charles Mackay, scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter (1814-1889)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- MOTTO

-03- NATIONAL DELUSIONS

-04- THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME

-05- THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

-06- LIST OF BUBBLES

-07- THE TULIPOMANIA

-08- RELICS

-09- 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