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Thinking small : the United States and the lure of community development / Daniel Immerwahr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0674735838
  • 9780674735835
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thinking small; Print version:: Thinking small.DDC classification:
  • 307.1/40973 23
LOC classification:
  • HN90.C6 I44 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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?
Summary: 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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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?

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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