The team has or will produce essays on
1) Bowles' "Medley" prints and crowd theories (e.g., "deindividuation"). David McNeil, "Collage and Social Theories: An Examination of Bowles's "Medley' Prints of the 1720 South Sea Bubble," Word & Image 20, No. 4 (2004): 283-98.
2) French responses to the system of John Law,
3) Ananlysis of popular songs dealing with the Bubble, Dianne Dugaw, "‘High Change in ‘Change Alley': Popular Ballads and Emergent Capitalism in the Eighteenth Century,",Eighteenth Century Life 22.2 (1998): 43-58.
4) Bibliographic analysis of the Dutch satiric compilation, Frans De Bruyn, Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid and the Speculative Bubble of 1720: A Bibliographical Enigma and an Economic Force," Eighteenth Century Life 24.1 (2000): 62-87.
5) Interpretative analysis of Frans De Bruyn, "Reading Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: An Emblem Book of the Folly of Speculation in the Bubble Year 1720," Eighteenth-Century Life 24.2 (2000): 1-42.
6) "John Law and his Painting Collection: Connoisseur or Dupe?" Jolynn Edwards (University of Washington) John Law's speculation in art.
7) American Mining Bubbles in the Conext of 1720, Wayne Bodle, "'Such a Noise in the World': Copper Mines and an American Colonial Echo to the South Sea Bubble," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 127.2 (April 2003): 131-65.
Forward suggestions and comments to the BP Coordinator: David McNeil (dmcneil@dal.ca)
Last Updated: May 30, 2003
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