Waste Into Weapons - Recycling in Britain During the Second World War

Informationen zum Autor Peter Thorsheim is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Klappentext Waste into Weapons is the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling in Britain.Waste into Weapons is the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling in Britain. Based on meticulous research, Peter Thorsheim examines the relationship between armaments production, civil liberties, cultural preservation, and diplomacy as these elements played out during Britain's government-sponsored recycling campaign in the Second World War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Beating Ploughshares into Swords: 1. Salvage in times of peace and war; 2. Persuasion and its limits; 3. Britain's darkest hour; 4. Private enterprise and the public good; Part II. Alliances: 5. Lend-Lease; 6. Waste becomes a crime; Part III. History, Culture, and Civil Liberties: 7. The built environment; 8. Wasting paper; 9. Requisition; 10. Victory and postwar; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Peter Thorsheim, Peter (University of North Carolina Thorsheim, Thorsheim Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107492097
• ISBN: 978-1-107-49209-7
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; NATURE / General, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, natural history, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, Nature and the natural world: general interest, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General