Industrialization and Assimilation - Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World (Hardcover)

Industrialization and Assimilation examines the process of ethnic identity change in a broad historical context. Green explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that, by altering the basis of economic production from land to labour and removing people from the 'idiocy of rural life', industrialization makes societies more ethnically homogenous. More specifically, the author argues that industrialization lowers the relative value of rural land, leading people to identify less with narrow rural identities in favour of broader identities that can aid them in navigating the formal urban economy. Using large-scale datasets that span the globe as well as detailed case studies ranging from mid-twentieth-century Turkey to contemporary Botswana, Somalia and Uganda, as well as evidence from Native Americans in the United States and the Maori in New Zealand, Industrialization and Assimilation provides a new framework to understand the origins of modern ethnic identities.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2022
Authors:	Elliott D. Green
Dimensions:	159 x 236 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	225
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-926836-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	1-00-926836-8
Barcode:	9781009268363

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