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"Lazy, improvident people" : myth and reality in the writing of Spanish history / Ruth MacKay.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackay, Ruth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor.
- History.
- Work ethic.
- National characteristics, Spanish.
- Spain--Historiography.
- Spain.
- Historiography.
- National characteristics, Spanish--History.
- Work ethic--Spain--History.
- Labor--Spain--History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 298 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Seventeenth-Century Castile
- Prologue: Castile and Craftsmen in the Early Modern Period 11
- 1 The Republic of Labor 20
- 2 The Life of Labor 72
- Part 2 Las Luces
- Prologue: Work in the Eighteenth Century 111
- 3 The New Thinking 120
- 4 The New Work Ethic 163
- Part 3 "The Problem of Spain"
- Prologue: The Short Nineteenth Century and the Empire 201
- 5 A Nation Punished 207
- 6 The Narrative 245.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801444624
- 0801473144
- OCLC:
- 62762212
- Publisher Number:
- 9780801444623
- 9780801473142
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