{"product_id":"a-small-price-to-pay-9780774823630","title":"A Small Price to Pay","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. \u003cem\u003eA Small Price to Pay,\u003c\/em\u003e the first full-length study of consumer culture in wartime Canada, explodes this myth of home front sacrifice by bringing to light the contradictions of consumer society during the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWartime governments pressured Depression-weary citizens to save for the sake of the nation, but Canadians had money in their pockets after years of want, and the fantasy realm of advertisements promised them fresh groceries, glamorous movies, and new cars and appliances. Graham Broad reveals that our greatest generation was not impervious to temptation but rather embarked on one of the biggest spending booms in our nation's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutting through the fog of patriotic enthusiasm, this richly illustrated book reveals that the consumer-spending boom of the 1950s and 1960s was not a postwar phenomenon after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Small Price To Pay\u003c\/em\u003e is wry, ironic and wonderfully researched. It is also a dramatic resetting of the record. Far from the media depiction of 1940s Canada as a bleak and downcast place, Broad makes a persuasive case that most people never had it so good ... for young Canadians and even for those who lived it, the war years are immortalized as a black-and-white period of communal misery and sacrifice.\u003cem\u003e A Small Price To Pay\u003c\/em\u003e reruns the memory reel in brilliant colour punctuated with an astonishing fact: in no year of the war did Canada spend more on the military than it did on shopping.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter: Minding Ottawa's Business *\u003cbr\u003eI encourage neophytes and specialists alike interested in the Canadian home front to read this book. It should not be ignored for anyone interested in this topic. -- Daniel German, Library and Archives Canada * Canadian Military History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth books [Broad’s \u003cem\u003eA Small Price to Pay\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eFood Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front\u003c\/em\u003e by Ian Mosby, UBC Press 2014] are much needed additions to the historiography of Canada’s Second World War Experience. Too often have the daily lives of those on the home front been overlooked in favour of the stories of the men and women who marched away in khaki. Those who remained behind – 90 percent of Canadians – also had their worlds fundamentally transformed by war, as these books demonstrate. Specialists will certainly appreciate these works, but both are accessible and appealing to a general audience as well.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Stacey J. Barker * BC Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Small Price to Pay\u003c\/em\u003e provides an excellent starting point from which to launch further explorations of the subject area … I encourage neophytes and specialists alike interested in the Canadian home front to read this book. It should not be ignored for anyone interested in the topic.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Daniel German, Library and Archives Canada * Canadian Military History Vol 26, Issue 2 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Mrs. Consumer, Patriotic Consumerism, and the Wartime Prices and Trade Board\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Business as Usual: Adworkers and the Coming of War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Finding a Place for Wartime Advertising\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Advertising to Win the War and Secure the Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Buying and Selling Big Ticket Items\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 “The Grim Realities of War, as Pictured by Hollywood”: Consuming Leisure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Guns and Butter: Consumer Spending, Inflation, and Price Controls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes, Selected Bibliography, Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404926558551,"sku":"9780774823630","price":73.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774823630.jpg?v=1730488077","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-small-price-to-pay-9780774823630","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}