Being selections from  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.   Mackay's work ...

In visiting a rice plantation, my object was not so much to satisfy myself that the slave-owners of America are kind to their negroes, as to satisfy the ...

2009 reprint of the 1852 second edition. Two volumes bound into one. Charles Mackay (1814-1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer. He ...

In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness ...

"Delirios populares extraordinarios y la locura de las masas" describe tres momentos históricos de especulación desbordada en Inglaterra ...