{"product_id":"thinking-small-the-united-states-and-the-lure-of-community-development-9780674984127","title":"Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians\u003cbr\u003eCo-Winner of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThinking Small\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThinking Small\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThinking Small\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Merlin Chowkwanyun, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As the historian Daniel Immerwahr demonstrates brilliantly in \u003ci\u003eThinking Small\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jamie Martin, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eImmerwahr, Daniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Daniel Immerwahr is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503626850578,"sku":"9780674984127","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0437862f-9c0a-4568-941e-7325f9a84e71.jpg?v=1730794574","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thinking-small-the-united-states-and-the-lure-of-community-development-9780674984127","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}