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Playing the market : retail investment and speculation in twentieth-century Britain. / Kieran Heinemann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinemann, Kieran, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investments--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Investments.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This book explores the distinctively British obsession with investment and speculation. It explains how and why everyday British people increasingly invested, speculated, and gambled in stocks and shares from the outbreak of World War I, over the postwar decades and the Thatcher years, up until the premiership of Tony Blair.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-189643-8
- 0-19-260985-8
- OCLC:
- 1256261097
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