"Lazy, improvident people"
"Lazy, improvident people": myth and reality in the writing of Spanish history
Ruth MacKay
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2006.
ISBN: 0801444624
DDC: 946.0072
LCC: DP63
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index.
Part 1. Seventeenth-century Castile -- Prologue: Castile and
craftsmen in the early modern period -- The republic of labor -- The
life of labor -- Part 2. Las Luces -- Prologue: work in the
eighteenth century -- The new thinking -- The new work ethic -- "The
problem of Spain" Prologue: the short nineteenth century and the
empire -- A nation punished -- The narrative.
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