Bøger af Catherine McNicol Stock

In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside.

Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against...

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.