Community
of Strangers: Change, Turnover, Turbulence and the Transformation of a
Midwestern Country Town
| In the tradition of two previous works dealing with
the region, The Decline of Rural Minnesota and To Call It
Home: The New Immigrants of Southwestern Minnesota, the authors
have again focused their attention in this volume on change in contemporary
rural Minnesota. Community of Strangers examines the business history
of Marshall, a southwestern Minnesota regional center. It surveys
accelerating change, turnover, turbulence, and the current transformation
of this prairie town and its surrounding region, conditions that have
both relevance and repercussions for all of contemporary rural America.
Anticipating future projects of Southwest State University's Center
for Rural and Regional Studies and the Society for the Study of Local
and Regional History, Community of Strangers has taken another
step in documenting contemporary rural change, a period rivaled in
intensity of change only by the settlement period itself. |
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Crossings Press, 1999
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