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Making Do
- Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World
Engelsk Hardback
Making Do
- Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9781009464284
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1009464280
Udg. Dato:
24 apr 2025
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
161mm
Højde:
239mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
24 apr 2025
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