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_aParker, Selwyn, _d1941- _957171 |
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_aThe great crash : _bhow the Stock Market Crash of 1929 plunged the world into depression / _cSelwyn Parker. |
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_aLondon : _bPiatkus, _c2008. |
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_aviii, 310 p. : _bill ; _c20 cm. |
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520 | _aThe 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? | ||
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_aDepressions _y1929. _946941 |
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_aStock Market Crash _y1929. _957172 |
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_aEconomic history _y1918-1945. _948785 |
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