Thinking Small :The United States and the Lure of Community Development
Thinking Small :The United States and the Lure of Community Development
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Published:
27 February, 2018
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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
Prizes
Winner of Merle Curti Award 2016,Nominated for New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize 2015,Winner of S-USIH Annual Book Award 2016,Nominated for Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize 2016,Nominated for Ellis W. Hawley Prize 2016,Nominated for OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award 2016,Nominated for Bancroft Prize 2016,Nominated for PROSE Awards 2017,Nominated for Francis Parkman Prize 2016,Nominated for Mark Lynton History Prize 2016
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780674984127 |
| ISBN10 | 0674984129 |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Harvard University Press |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
Daniel Immerwahr is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.