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In their own hands : how savings groups are revolutionizing development
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ISBN: 1626562199 Year: 2014 Publisher: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.,

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In this book, the authors show that applying savings group principles could revolutionize development in areas as diverse as health, agriculture, education and grassroots political empowerment.


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Meeting needs : NGO coordination in practice
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Year: 1995 Publisher: London Earthscan

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Threads of Globalization : Fashion, Textiles, and Gender in Asia in the Long Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 1526163411 152616339X 1526185113 Year: 2024 Publisher: Manchester, England : Manchester University Press,

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Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production-into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.


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The making of Tocqueville's America
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ISBN: 022629711X 9780226297118 9780226297088 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago

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Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations-and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth-century Americans were, in Tocqueville's words, "forever forming associations." In The Making of Tocqueville's America, Kevin Butterfield argues that to understand this, we need to first ask: what did membership really mean to the growing number of affiliated Americans? Butterfield explains that the first generations of American citizens found in the concept of membership-in churches, fraternities, reform societies, labor unions, and private business corporations-a mechanism to balance the tension between collective action and personal autonomy, something they accomplished by emphasizing law and procedural fairness. As this post-Revolutionary procedural culture developed, so too did the legal substructure of American civil society. Tocqueville, then, was wrong to see associations as the training ground for democracy, where people learned to honor one another's voices and perspectives. Rather, they were the training ground for something no less valuable to the success of the American democratic experiment: increasingly formal and legalistic relations among people.


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International review on public and nonprofit marketing.
ISSN: 18651992 18651984 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berlin : Springer-Verlag,

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