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"Lazy, improvident people" : myth and reality in the writing of Spanish history /

Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. I...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mackay, Ruth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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