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

by Daniel Immerwahr

Book Overview

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.

It is common for historians to interpret the United States' postwar development campaigns as ill-advised attempts to impose modernity upon poorer nations. The small-scale...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674289943
• ISBN13: 9780674289949
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.7"