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  title info:
    title: War junk
    sub title: munitions disposal and postwar reconstruction in Canada
  name:
    name part: Souchen, Alex
    name part: 1986-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: War Junk reveals the complex political, economic, social and environmental legacies of munitions disposal in Canada. During the Second World War, Canadian factories produced mountains of munitions and supplies, including some 800 ships, 16,000 aircraft, 800,000 vehicles and over 4.6 billion rounds of ammunition and artillery shells. Although they were crucial to winning the war, these assets turned into peacetime liabilities when hostilities ended in 1945. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, Alex Souchen provides a definitive account of the disposal crisis triggered by Allied victory and shows how Canadian policymakers implemented a disposal strategy that facilitated postwar reconstruction. Canadians responded to the unprecedented divestment of public property by reusing and recycling military surpluses to improve their postwar lives. From the fear of deflating markets with surplus assets to the thriftiness of upcycling the remnants of war, Souchen argues that the disposal of munitions and supplies was integral to the making of postwar Canada.
  note: Alex Souchen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    topic: Surplus military property
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: Supplies and stores
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Defense industries
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Economic conversion
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Reconstruction (1939-1951)
    geographic: Canada
  classification: 355.6/21370971
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Canadian military history
  identifier: 9780774862929
  identifier: 0774862920
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 200106
    record change date: 20201020070552.0
    record identifier: in00004150463
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng