| Description |
1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations |
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text file PDF |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Community development -- United States -- History.
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Community development. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Community development -- Developing countries -- History.
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Developing countries. |
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Economic assistance, American -- Developing countries -- History.
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Economic assistance, American. |
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Rural development projects -- United States -- History.
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Rural development projects. |
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Rural development projects -- Developing countries -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Immerwahr, Daniel, 1980- Thinking small 9780674289949 (DLC) 2014011215 (OCoLC)877809102 |
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Print version: Immerwahr, Daniel, 1980- Thinking small. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015 9780674289949 (DLC) 2014011215 (OCoLC)877809102 |
| ISBN |
0674735838 (electronic book) |
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9780674735835 (electronic book) |
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9780674289949 |
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0674289943 |
| Standard No. |
10.4159/harvard.9780674735835 |
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