Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development

Winner of the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians Co-Winner of the Society...
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Author: Daniel Immerwahr
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Language: English
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Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development by Immerwahr, Daniel

Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development

€67,29

Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development

€67,29
Author: Daniel Immerwahr
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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

Author: Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 02/01/2018
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780674984127

About the Author
Immerwahr, Daniel: - Daniel Immerwahr is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.

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