Thinking Small - The United States and the Lure of Community Development (Paperback)

Winner of the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians Co-Winner of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award Thinking Small tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences. "Unfortunately, far from eliminating deprivation and attacking the social status quo, bottom-up community development projects often reinforced them...This is a history with real stakes. If that prior campaign's record is as checkered as Thinking Small argues, then its intellectual descendants must do some serious rethinking... How might those in twenty-first-century development and anti-poverty work forge a better path? They can start by reading Thinking Small." -Merlin Chowkwanyun, Boston Review "As the historian Daniel Immerwahr demonstrates brilliantly in Thinking Small, the history of development has seen constant experimentation with community-based and participatory approaches to economic and social improvement...Immerwahr's account of these failures should give pause to those who insist that going small is always better than going big." -Jamie Martin, The Nation

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2018
Authors:	Daniel Immerwahr
Dimensions:	156 x 235 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-98412-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-674-98412-9
Barcode:	9780674984127

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