Cold Meat and How to Disguise It: A History of Advice on How to Survive Hard Times: A Hundred Years of Belt Tightening

by Hunter Davies

Book Overview

Credit has been crunched, banks hammered, the economy battered, prices up, hopes down. All classes are being urged to economise, make do and mend, spin things out, avoid waste. It has been ever thus. In times of War, General Strikes as well as Economic Disasters, Governments as well as agony aunts, do-gooders, magazines, books and manufacturers have always exhorted us to tighten the old belts. Hunter Davies looks back at a hundred years of handy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071123051X
• ISBN13: 9780711230514
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"