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Historical Collections

Historical Bubbles: An Introductory Bibliography

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 4, October 1998. Special Invited Issue: Money, Trust, Speculation and Social Justice.

Carswell, John. The South Sea Bubble. London: Cresset Press, 1960.

Chancellor, Edward. Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1999.

Cole, Arthur Harrison. The Great Mirror of Folly (Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid): an Economic-Bibliographical Study. Boston: Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, [c1949]. Publication No. 6 of the Kress Library of Business and Economics.

May be purchased through the Historical Collections Department at Baker Library.

Fridson, Martin S. (ed.). Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusión de Confusiones. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Short History of Financial Euphoria. New York: Whittle Books in Association with Viking, 1993.

Garber, Peter M. Famous First Bubbles : the Fundamentals of Early Manias. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.

Goodwin, Neva R., Frank Ackerman, and David Kiron (foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith). The Consumer Society. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.*

Hancock, D. "Domestic Bubbling: Eighteenth-Century London Merchants and Individual Investment in the Funds." Economic History Review 47, No. 4 (November 1994): 679-702.

Ingrassia, Catherine. "Paper Credit: Grub Street, Exchange Alley and 'Feminization' in Early Eighteenth-Century England." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 24 (1995): 191-210.*

Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (ed.). The Reach of Print: Making, Selling, and Using Books. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies; Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1998.*

Kindleberger, Charles P. Manias, Panics and Crashes. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996. Third edition.

Markley, Robert. "'So inexhaustible a Treasure of Gold': Defoe, Capitalism, and the Romance of the South Seas." Eighteenth-Century Life 18, No. 3 (1994): 148-67.*

Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (ed.). Spreading the Word: the Distribution Networks of Print 1550-1850. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990.*

Neal, Larry. The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Nicholson, Colin. Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.*

O'Gorman, Frank. The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History, 1688-1832. London: Arnold, 1997.*

Rogers, Pat. Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1985.*

_____. "Plunging in the Southern Waves: Swift's Poem on the Bubble." Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988): 41-50.*

Reed, Christopher. "The Damn'd South Sea: Britain's greatest financial speculation and its unhappy ending, documented in a rich Harvard collection". Harvard Magazine, May-June 1999: 36-41.

Rivers, Isabel (ed.). Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.*

Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

South Sea Bubble Project website

Sperling, John G. The South Sea Company: an Historical Essay and Bibliographical Finding List. Boston: Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1962. Publication No. 17 of the Kress Library of Business and Economics.

May be purchased through the Historical Collections Department at Baker Library.

 

 

*Available at another Harvard University Library, check HOLLIS.

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