TY  - BOOK
AU  - Immerwahr,Daniel
TI  - Thinking small: the United States and the lure of community development 
SN  - 0674735838
AV  - HN90.C6 I44 2015eb
U1  - 307.1/40973 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Community development
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Economic assistance, American
KW  - Rural development projects
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - City Planning & Urban Development
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface: Modernization, development, and community -- Introduction: Actually existing localism -- When small was big -- Development without modernization -- Peasantville -- Grassroots empire -- Urban villages -- Epilogue: What is dead and what is undead in community development?
N2  - Daniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. He also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, alongside grander moderization schemes--with often disastrous consequences as self-help gave way to crushing local oppression
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