02290nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10330789 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 071212s2008 nyu sb 001 0 eng 2007050698 9781594032141 (alk. paper) 1594032149 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)503444926 JC337 .E24 2008eb 300 22 Eberly, Don E. The rise of global civil society [electronic resource] : building communities and nations from the bottom up / Don Eberly. 1st ed. New York : Encounter Books, 2008. xiii, 333 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index. Forward poverty reduction in the age of globalization -- Civil society : America's most consequential export -- The common elements of community building and nation building: -- The American domestic policy debate -- The great foreign aid debate : America, generous or stingy? -- From aid bureaucracy to civil society -- Toward participation and partnerships -- Wealth, poverty, and the rise of corporate citizenship -- Micro-enterprise : tapping native capability at the bottom of the pyramid -- America's most generous gift : the great tsunami of 2005 -- Conflict or collaboration : religion and civil society -- Understanding and confronting anti-americanism -- Civil society and nation building : prospects for democratization -- Conflict and reconciliation in the context of nation building -- Habits of the heart : building civic community -- Looking ahead : a roadmap for building communities and nations through indigenous civil society, markets, and rule of law -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Civil society. Voluntarism. Public welfare. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10330789 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 67449 67449