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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.
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.
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