"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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Seventeenth-century Castile
- Castile and craftsmen in the Early Modern period
- The republic of labor
- The life of labor
- Las luces
- Work in the eighteenth century
- The new thinking
- The new work ethic
- "The problem of Spain"
- The short nineteenth century and the empire
- A nation punished
- The narrative.