Add to ORKGThe analysis in this book rests on the contention that by the time of the Great Depression there existed on the northern Plains a broad commonality of culture and interest that may be termed the old middle class. The old middle class was a petty-producer class comprising both town and country. It espoused such values as hard work, egalitarianism, and community service, enforcing them through community organizations and public ritual. When a new middle class, the bureaucrats of the New Deal, proposed fundamental reforms in the society and economy of the Plains, they found Dakotans receptive to aid-of course, given the magnitude of the emergency-but stubbornly resistant to reform. It was the common values of the old middle class that laid t...
Review of: "The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century," by R. Douglas Hurt
Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience is a substantial compilation of primary and secondary mate...
Book review of Richard Lowitt and Maurine Beasley (Eds.), One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Repor...
Review of: Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plai...
Review of: Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plai...
Review of: Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plai...
Review of: A New Deal for South Dakota: Drought, Depression, and Relief, 1920–1941, by R. Alton Le
Going It Alone provides an in-depth examination of Fargo, North Dakota, during the Great Depression....
Review of: "The Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, 1929–1933," by Lisa L. Ossian
Review of: A New Deal for South Dakota: Drought, Depression, and Relief, 1920–1941, by R. Alton Le
During this era, farmers and workers watched as forces of wealth captured control of both major poli...
Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience is a substantial compilation of primary and secondary mate...
Mixed Harvest is a good title for a book that documents the complexity of interests involved in twen...
Review of: The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade. Klehr, Harvey
Review of: "The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century," by R. Douglas Hurt
Review of: "The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century," by R. Douglas Hurt
Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience is a substantial compilation of primary and secondary mate...
Book review of Richard Lowitt and Maurine Beasley (Eds.), One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Repor...
Review of: Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plai...
Review of: Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plai...
Review of: Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plai...
Review of: A New Deal for South Dakota: Drought, Depression, and Relief, 1920–1941, by R. Alton Le
Going It Alone provides an in-depth examination of Fargo, North Dakota, during the Great Depression....
Review of: "The Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, 1929–1933," by Lisa L. Ossian
Review of: A New Deal for South Dakota: Drought, Depression, and Relief, 1920–1941, by R. Alton Le
During this era, farmers and workers watched as forces of wealth captured control of both major poli...
Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience is a substantial compilation of primary and secondary mate...
Mixed Harvest is a good title for a book that documents the complexity of interests involved in twen...
Review of: The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade. Klehr, Harvey
Review of: "The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century," by R. Douglas Hurt
Review of: "The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century," by R. Douglas Hurt
Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience is a substantial compilation of primary and secondary mate...
Book review of Richard Lowitt and Maurine Beasley (Eds.), One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Repor...