Thinking Small : : The United States and the Lure of Community Development / / Daniel Immerwahr.
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. It is common for historians...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 14 halftones, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Modernization, Development, and Community
- Introduction: Actually Existing Localism
- 1. When Small Was Big
- 2. Development without Modernization
- 3. Peasantville
- 4. Grassroots Empire
- Epilogue: What Is Dead and What Is Undead in Community Development?
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index