Main Street in Crisis The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains by Catherine McNicol Stock - August 20, 1997

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Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1997. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 305 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. This is a cultural history of the Northern Plains during the Great Depression. It examines the efforts of the North and South Dakotans to come to terms with the enormous social change wrought by New Deal bureaucracy and the rise of the modern state.

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New. This study of class during the Great Depression is the first to examine a relatively neglected geographical area, the northern plains states of North and South Dakota, from a social and cultural perspective. Surveying the values and ideals of the old middle class -- independent shopkeepers, artisans, professionals, and farmers -- Catherine Stock presents a picture of Dakotans' cultural life in the 1920s and 1930s and tells of their efforts to come to terms with the enormous social change brought about by the New Deal. According to Stock, the depression not only destroyed Dakotans' economic foundations but also bankrupted their community organizations and undermined theirsocial relations. She shows that Dakotans' social values, characterized by notions of neighborliness, loyalty, hard wok, upright character, and individual enterprise, were threatedened first by devastating drought and subsequent economic collapse and then by massive relief efforts and governmental intervention on an… Read More

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