Elliott D. Green

Industrialization and Assimilation (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009268387
• Artikelnr.: 70912447

Autorenporträt

Elliott D. Green is Associate Professor of Development Studies in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. His research focusses on the origins of ethnic and national identification and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Understanding ethnicity and industrialization
3. Industrialization and assimilation in historical perspective
4. Cross-national evidence
5. Industrialization and assimilation in mid-20th century Turkey
6. Cases of non-industrialization in Africa: Somalia and Uganda
7. 'Cattle without legs': structural transformation in Botswana
8. Ethic change among Native Americans in the United States
9. Ethnic change among the M¿ori in New Zealand
10. Conclusion.