Podcast of the Day- Tulipmania in the Dutch Golden Age
Anne Goldgar (author of Tulipmania, Money, Honour, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age) argues that the Dutch mania for tulips has been mythologized by historians. She says there is much more to the story than greed and the madness - and gullibility - of crowds, and she explores why the tulip became such an object of desire for Dutch citizens in the seventeenth century
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