Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska. Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 286. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-820453-1.

The traditional narrative of twentieth-century politics has faced sustained challenge for over a decade as new research has gradually chipped away at its key assumption of a progressive consensus in national politics and policy after the Second World War. Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska's study of austerity policies during and after the war makes a valuable contribution to the new revisionist account.

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