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

by Catherine McNicol Stock

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846899
• ISBN13: 9780807846896
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"