War Junk

Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Alex Souchen

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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 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.War Junk recounts the complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies of munitions disposal in Canada by revealing how the tools of war became integral to the making of postwar Canada.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-26
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Canadian Military History
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774862929
UtmärkelserCommended for C.P. Stacey Award 2022 (Canada)

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Alex Souchen is a historian specializing in warfare, society, and the environment in Canada, based in Kingston. He received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario and held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies. He currently holds an Associated Medical Services Postdoctoral Fellowship at Trent University's Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies.

Introduction: The Death and Life of War Machines1 Preparing for Peace: Creating the Disposal Administration2 Forms and Floods: Controlling Disposal Operations3 Cleanup Crew: Disposal Logistics and Postwar Requirements4 Assets to Ashes? Recouping Value from Depreciating Things5 Resold and Reused: Surplus Assets and the Postwar Transition6 Recycling and Reconstruction: Thrift, Hybridity, and Economic RecoveryConclusion: The Legacies of DisposalNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

War Junk makes an entirely fresh contribution to a growing body of scholarship on Canada and war in the twentieth century.- Andrew Iarocci, Canadian Military History Alex Souchen's fine work speaks to the enormous economic, political, as well as environmental consequences of wartime disposal. The breadth of this work is truly impressive. - Geoffrey Hayes, Department of History, University of Waterloo (University of Toronto Quarterly)