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

by Daniel Immerwahr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674984129
• ISBN13: 9780674984127
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"