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 for U.S. Intellectual History Book AwardThinking 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

ISBN:	9780674984127
Publisher:	Harvard
Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Published date:	26 Feb 2018
DEWEY:	307.140973
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	398g
Height:	156mm
Width:	235mm
Spine width:	19mm

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