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Industrialization and assimilation : understanding ethnic change in the modern world / Elliott D. Green, London School of Economics and Political Science

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023

1 online resource (xviii, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-009-26835-6 (ebook); 978-1-009-26836-3 (hardback); 978-1-009-26837-0 (paperback)

978-1-009-26836-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1356304624     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781009268356

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LOC-SH: Ethnicity -- Cross-cultural studies ; Industrialization -- Cross-cultural studies ; Assimilation (Sociology) -- Cross-cultural studies

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 Māori in New Zealand, Industrialization and Assimilation provides a new framework to understand the origins of modern ethnic identities.