| 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? |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2014011215 |
| ISBN | 9780674289949 |
| ISBN | 0674289943 |
