Goldgar, Anne - University of Chicago Press
<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>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...</div></div></div></div>