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Mackay’s famous historical survey examines episodes of collective enthusiasm, speculation and social contagion. The useful way to read it is not as a modern behavioral-science manual, but as a collection of cautionary stories about how crowds can reinforce beliefs and prices
The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England preserves the voices of Royalist culture during and after the English Civil Wars, collecting poems and songs written between 1642 and 1684. These works cover war, loyalty, politics, drinking, love, satire, exile, military life, and the nostalgia of
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