"This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race have changed before allowing them to read this classic work"--Title page.
Originally published as Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. London : Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852.
Summary
Presents a comprehensive account of paranormal beliefs and popular delusions in history including the seventeenth-century madness surrounding the value of tulips in Holland, witch hunts and haunted houses, health cures and scares, and other examples of human gullibility.