The Great Crash: How the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Plunged the World into Depression

by Selwyn Parker

Overview

This is the story of the financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, and 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 Parker's book also poses the question: could it happen again?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780349431192
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.87(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

A New Zealander by birth, Selwyn Parker has written for a number of international publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Time magazine and Newsweek. His first book on investment entitled Winners and Losers was published in 1987; he has also written several company histories and an award-winning travel book about France; Chasing the Chimney Sweep.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 Song of the Stock Ticker 5

2 Days of Reckoning 28

3 Liquidate Everything 41

4 A Visitor from the Bank of England 52

5 Iron Chancellor 71

6 Rise of the Fascists 88

7 Sir Montagu's Nightmare 103

8 Sinking Ships 128

9 Fall of the 'Big Fella' 156

10 The Woodbine Economy 180

11 Hour of the Revolution 209

12 State of the Nation 225

13 The New Deal 251

14 Turn of the Tide 273

Epilogue 283

Endnotes 287

Picture Credits 289

Index 291

Editorial Reviews

a concise, lively study of the Depression—TIME OUT

A lively and readable account of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the worldwide depression that followed—IRISH TIMES

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