Tulipomania

Name: Tulipomania
Brand: Broadway Books
SKU: 9780609807651
Price: 67.51 PLN
Availability: InStock

The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

Autor: Mike Dash

Język:

Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Broadway Books

Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy

Wysyłamy za 9-15 dni

67.51 zł

In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Mike Dash

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2001

strony

288

EAN

9780609807651

ISBN

060980765X

Enbook ID

11008679

Wydawca

Broadway Books

Waga

227

Wymiary

140 x 210 x 19

Pełny opis

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.

Możesz być zainteresowany

Klienci, którzy kupili tę książkę, kupili również

Najczęściej wyszukiwane

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Najczęściej wyszukiwane

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Tulipomania

The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

Informacje o książce

Pełny opis

Możesz być zainteresowany

Klienci, którzy kupili tę książkę, kupili również