Thinking small : the United States and the lure of community development / Daniel Immerwahr.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0674735838
- 9780674735835
- Community development -- United States -- History
- Community development -- Developing countries -- History
- Economic assistance, American -- Developing countries -- History
- Rural development projects -- United States -- History
- Rural development projects -- Developing countries -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Community development
- Economic assistance, American
- Rural development projects
- Developing countries
- United States
- 307.1/40973 23
- HN90.C6 I44 2015eb
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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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