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