Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World - Couverture rigide

Carruthers, Susan L.

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ISBN 10 : 1009464280 ISBN 13 : 9781009464284

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Imagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant – cheap, disposable, indestructible – but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, a textile famine loomed. What would everyone wear as uniforms were discarded and soldiers returned home, Nazi camps were liberated, and millions of uprooted people struggled to subsist? In this richly textured history, Carruthers unpicks a familiar wartime motto, 'Make Do and Mend', to reveal how central fabric was to postwar Britain. Clothes and footwear supplied a currency with which some were rewarded, while others went without. Making Do moves from Britain's demob centres to liberated Belsen – from razed German cities to refugee camps and troopships – to uncover intimate ties between Britons and others bound together in new patterns of mutual need. Filled with original research and personal stories, Making Do illuminates how lives were refashioned after the most devastating war in human history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Susan L. Carruthers is Professor of US and International History at the University of Warwick. Much of her work focuses on war and the ways in which individuals, and societies more broadly, have made sense of conflict and its aftermath. She is the author of six previous books, including Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace (2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009464280
• ISBN 13: 9781009464284
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie