A Colorful History Of Popular Delusions

Author : Robert E. Bartholomew
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633881229
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Colorful History of Popular Delusions written by Robert E. Bartholomew and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable. What do fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, moral panics, riots, stampedes, and other mass expressions of emotion have in common? By creating a typology of such behavior, past and present, the authors show how common extraordinary group reactions to fear or excitement are. And they offer insights into how these sometimes dangerous mob responses can be avoided. We may not be surprised to read about the peculiarities of the European Middle Ages, when superstition was commonplace: like the meowing nuns of France, "tarantism" (a dancing mania) in Italy, or the malicious anti-Semitic poison-well scares. But similar phenomena show up in our own era. Examples include the social-networking hysteria of 2012, which resulted in uncontrollable twitching by teenage girls in Leroy, NY; the "phantom bus terrorist" of 2004 in Vancouver, Canada; and the itching outbreak of 2000 in South Africa. Vivid, detailed, and thoroughly researched, this is a fascinating overview of collective human behavior in its many unusual forms.

Author : William J. Bernstein
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802157114
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Delusions of Crowds written by William J. Bernstein and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “disturbing yet fascinating” exploration of mass mania through the ages explains the biological and psychological roots of irrationality (Kirkus Reviews). From time immemorial, contagious narratives have spread through susceptible groups—with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay’s nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, neurologist and author William Bernstein examines mass delusion through the lens of current scientific research in The Delusions of Crowds. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last five hundred years—from the Anabaptist Madness of the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that pervade today’s polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles. Through Bernstein’s supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their “desire to improve one’s well-being in this life or the next.” Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania. He observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of this all-too-human phenomenon, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact.

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Complete Edition: Volume 1-3) written by Charles Mackay and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetizers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Contents: Volume 1: National Delusions: The Mississippi Scheme The South Sea Bubble The Tulipomania Relics Modern Prophecies Popular Admiration for Great Thieves Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard Duels and Ordeals The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True Popular Follies in Great Cities Old Price Riots The Thugs, or Phansigars Volume 2: Peculiar Follies: The Crusades The Witch Mania The Slow Poisoners Haunted Houses Volume 3: Philosophical Delusions : The Alchemysts Fortune Telling The Magnetisers

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetizers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Contents: Volume 1: National Delusions: The Mississippi Scheme The South Sea Bubble The Tulipomania Relics Modern Prophecies Popular Admiration for Great Thieves Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard Duels and Ordeals The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True Popular Follies in Great Cities Old Price Riots The Thugs, or Phansigars Volume 2: Peculiar Follies: The Crusades The Witch Mania The Slow Poisoners Haunted Houses Volume 3: Philosophical Delusions : The Alchemysts Fortune Telling The Magnetisers

Author : Charles MacKay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781727517866
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowdsby Charles MacKayPopular delusions began so early, spread so widely, and have lasted so long, that instead of two or three volumes, fifty would scarcely suffice to detail their history. The present may be considered more of a miscellany of delusions than a history--a chapter only in the great and awful book of human folly which yet remains to be written, and which Porson once jestingly said he would write in five hundred volumes! Interspersed are sketches of some lighter matters,--amusing instances of the imitativeness and wrongheadedness of the people, rather than examples of folly and delusion.Religious matters have been purposely excluded as incompatible with the limits prescribed to the present work; a mere list of them would alone be sufficient to occupy a volume.

Author : Keith Laumer
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473215838
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night of Delusions written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It starts out as a weird but seemingly understandable assignment, bodyguarding a mad politician whose keepers have decided to let him "escape" as a sort of reality therapy. But to understand the Senator, Florin must enter the Machine, an reality will never be the same. From now on he's a Knight of Delusions.

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, first published in 1852, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition represents an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". MacKay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. Scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan mentioned the book in his own discussion about pseudoscience, popular delusions, and hoaxes. Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter.

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.GA/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions written by Charles Mackay and published by London : R. Bentley. This book was released on 1841 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy Hendricks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Fads and Crazes through American History [2 volumes] written by Nancy Hendricks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of the fads and crazes that have taken America by storm from colonial times to the present. Entries cover a range of topics, including food, entertainment, fashion, music, and language. Why could hula hoops and TV westerns only have been found in every household in the 1950s? What murdered Russian princess can be seen in one of the first documented selfies, taken in 1914? This book answers those questions and more in its documentation of all of the most captivating trends that have defined American popular culture since before the country began. Entries are well-researched and alphabetized by decade. At the start of every section is an insightful historical overview of the decade, and the set uniquely illustrates what today's readers have in common with the past. It also contains a Glossary of Slang for each decade as well as a bibliography, plus suggestions for further reading for each entry. Students and readers interested in history will enjoy discovering trends through the years in such areas as fashion, movies, music, and sports.