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Title: Burst Your Bubble
Review: This slim volume is a remarkably entertaining cultural history of the tulip, focusing its particular attention on the Tulip Bubble of the Netherlands in the 1630s. Dash, however, back up and provides a very readable history of the flower and how it first made its way west to Europe, why it took root, so to speak, in the United Provinces, and how the sale of this flower evolved from the passion of a few dedicated botanists to a financial mania that swept the entire nation. Dash has done his research remarkably well (and I very much like the way he organizes his notes thematically), and he conveys his research in a way that is both erudite and charming. I heartily recommend for fans of popular history, financial history and gardening buffs.
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