Tulipomania : The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
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Tulipomania was a frenzy of buying and selling of tulips that occurred in the 1630s in the Netherlands.
Journal Entry 2 by tabby-cat-owner at n/a in a RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Monday, October 15, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/15/2007 UTC) at n/a in a RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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mailed to Haywire91 of nd'jamena, Chad, Africa as an RABCK.
I hope you enjoy the book, Haywire91.
mailed to Haywire91 of nd'jamena, Chad, Africa as an RABCK.
I hope you enjoy the book, Haywire91.
Nice one. Thanks to tabby and owner!
The man doesn't have quite the story telling ease which makes reading history written up by J.J. Norwich such fun but Dash provides lots of incident and colour and brings characters alive sometimes with just a few sentences. He also explains quite clearly how the Tulip mania came about and why it went bust and most importantly he debunks the idea that it was an economic destaster comparable to black Friday and the great depression of the last century. Funnily enough the Dutch (at least some of them) went comletely bonkers over tulips, a rare and novel plant then, and agreed ridiculous prices they had, for some, no means pay. Then the market went bust and everyone or most everyone should have been ruined but wasn't because the level headed Dtch basically decided to simply ignore all the depts and go back to as before the tulip craze.
On a more private level, I discovered one of the main characters in the story had a friend calle Jean de Brancion. The man obviously comes from a family that at one point held the important castle of Brancion in southern Burgundy not far from Cluny and Macon. Since I live 15 minutes from the castle I felt suddenly closer to the story being told. And of course it brought home just how far the lands of Burgundy had stretched under the great Dukes when the Netherlands belonged to them and the Spanish heritage was yet some years off. Even more importantly it showed just how European Europe was in the 15th and 16th century even after the end of the pan national Burgundian realm . More so than in the 19th when nation states established ever firmer control.
Will see whether the release happens here in Chad or whether I'll carry it on to Europe and release it there.
The man doesn't have quite the story telling ease which makes reading history written up by J.J. Norwich such fun but Dash provides lots of incident and colour and brings characters alive sometimes with just a few sentences. He also explains quite clearly how the Tulip mania came about and why it went bust and most importantly he debunks the idea that it was an economic destaster comparable to black Friday and the great depression of the last century. Funnily enough the Dutch (at least some of them) went comletely bonkers over tulips, a rare and novel plant then, and agreed ridiculous prices they had, for some, no means pay. Then the market went bust and everyone or most everyone should have been ruined but wasn't because the level headed Dtch basically decided to simply ignore all the depts and go back to as before the tulip craze.
On a more private level, I discovered one of the main characters in the story had a friend calle Jean de Brancion. The man obviously comes from a family that at one point held the important castle of Brancion in southern Burgundy not far from Cluny and Macon. Since I live 15 minutes from the castle I felt suddenly closer to the story being told. And of course it brought home just how far the lands of Burgundy had stretched under the great Dukes when the Netherlands belonged to them and the Spanish heritage was yet some years off. Even more importantly it showed just how European Europe was in the 15th and 16th century even after the end of the pan national Burgundian realm . More so than in the 19th when nation states established ever firmer control.
Will see whether the release happens here in Chad or whether I'll carry it on to Europe and release it there.
