Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America

by Janet M. Fitchen

Book Overview

Rural America as a place and a way of life is undergoing major transformation. The farm crisis and the decline of manufacturing dealt a double blow in the 1980s to rural communities, which continue to lose farms, factories, and young people. Rural lands are increasingly being sought as places for vacation homes, state prisons, and waste dumps. Rural people are ambivalent about new residents and activities and unsure of their own rural identity. Old...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813311144
• ISBN13: 9780813311142
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages