Anne Goldgar is an American historian, author and academic, specializing in seventeenth and eighteenth century European cultural and social history, and of Francophone culture across Europe. She holds the inaugural Van Hunnick Chair in European History at the University of Southern California Dornsife. [1] She was previously Professor of early modern history at King's College London, UK. [2] In 2016/7 she was a Descartes Theme Group Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. [3]
She is a graduate of Princeton University and received her PhD and M.A. from Harvard University. [4] Her dissertation was entitled: Gentlemen and Scholars: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750. [5]
She is the author and editor of several books including: Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago University Press, 2008). [6] In his review, Simon Kuper states that: 'Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: "Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.". . . She tells a new story.' (Financial Times). [6]
In 1995, she published Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750 (Yale University Press). [7] She is the editor of Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society, along with Robert Frost (Brill Academic Publishers, 2004). [4]
She published the peer-reviewed article, 'The British Museum and the Virtual Representation of Culture in the Eighteenth Century', Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies , 2000, Vol.32 (2), p. 195-231. [8]
Tulip mania was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels, and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative bubble or asset bubble in history. In many ways, the tulip mania was more of a hitherto unknown socio-economic phenomenon than a significant economic crisis. It had no critical influence on the prosperity of the Dutch Republic, which was one of the world's leading economic and financial powers in the 17th century, with the highest per capita income in the world from about 1600 to 1720. The term "tulip mania" is now often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble when asset prices deviate from intrinsic values.
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Andrew D. M. Pettegree is a British historian and one of the leading experts on the European Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. He currently holds a professorship at St Andrews University where he is the director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. He is also the founding director of the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute.
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