Parker, Selwyn,  1941- <br/><br/>
The great crash :  how the Stock Market Crash of 1929 plunged the world into depression / 
Selwyn Parker. 
 - London :  Piatkus,  2008. 
 - viii, 310 p. :  ill ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The story of thenbsp;financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 is told here,nbsp;tracing how itnbsp;set in motion a series of economic, political, and social events that affected many millions of people in America, Britain, Europe, and Australia. The Crash rolled across the world like a tidal wave, toppling governments, spreading the wave of dictatorships in Italy and Germany, infecting entire industries, and plunging millions into unemployment and poverty. By the time it began to lift in 1935, the lives of people in scores of countries had changed forever. Selwyn Parkers book also poses the questionCould it happen again? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780749909888 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Depressions--1929.<br/>Stock Market Crash--1929.<br/>Economic history--1918-1945.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>388.54209042 PA GR