Joseph's Reviews > Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age

I wrote my extended essay on tulipmania and this was by far the most thorough and authoritative book that I could find.

Refusing to be caught up in the excitement of the story (like others such as Dash do), Goldgar looks at "tulipmania" in a methodical and historical way. She questions, like any good historian should, the primary source data from which we have drawn so much about the story and in doing so paints a much more realistic picture of the crisis.

This book is for those who want an honest recount of the story, not an entertaining fallacy. As a result, it is a bit dry (hence why I only gave it 3 stars; not 4).