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The United States and the Lure of Community Development
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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

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Daniel Immerwahr is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.
Release date NZ
January 5th, 2015
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
14 halftones, 1 table
Pages
272
Dimensions
160x246x23
ISBN-13
9780674289949
Product ID
22323981

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