Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World

Elliott Green

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422 North Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Green will be talking on the subject of his new book, Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World, which 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 information on the book.