Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains

by Catherine McNicol Stock

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807820113
• ISBN13: 9780807820117
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"