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Reddit mentions of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Here are the top ones.
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I can only speak to your final question about the UK at the moment.
In some part, rationing continued after the war in the UK due to the destruction wrought by the war. Beginning in 1944, the UK went into a sharp recession that didn't end until around 1948. There was also the dislocation of decolonization. The UK lost control over many vital colonies contributing to the disruption of production. Despite all of this, the Labour government at the time had still committed the British army to the occupation of Germany and to rebuilding other parts in Europe. The government was still exercising the significant war-time controls over most of production and ended up over-committing what was a shrinking pile of resources, necessitating rationing.
If you're looking for more serious scholarship on the matter, I suggest Post War by Tony Judt. It captures what is was like for many of the Western European countries to endure conquest, outside liberation, and then the difficulty of rebuilding as they were severed from their empires. It's a good book if you want to understand the dismal state of affairs that produced the shortages and continued rationing in the UK, as well as its context within the rest of Europe.
That's interesting, I hadn't heard that. The book I'm reading (Tony Judt's Postwar) argues that, while the British colonies provided raw materials and soldiers during WWII, afterwards Britain was forced to decolonize because, well, they couldn't afford the empire anymore. Obviously I don't have a link to the text of the book, but some quick Googling got me this BBC article which references economic issues several times as a reason for Britain's decolonization.
I don't doubt that the UK increased its exploitation of its colonies in a short-term attempt to prolong the inevitable, but that seems beside the point.