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Author MacKay, Ruth.

Title "Lazy, improvident people" [electronic resource] : myth and reality in the writing of Spanish history / Ruth MacKay.

Imprint Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2006.

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Description xii, 298 p. ; 24 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2006.
Ideas in context ; 99.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Seventeenth-Century Castile -- Las Luces -- "The Problem of Spain".
Prologue: Castile and Craftsmen in the Early Modern Period -- The Republic of Labor -- The Life of Labor -- Prologue: Work in the Eighteenth Century -- The New Thinking -- The New Work Ethic -- Prologue: The Short Nineteenth Century and the Empire -- A Nation Punished -- The Narrative.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Funding This book is published with the aid of a grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities.
Subject National characteristics, Spanish -- History.
Work ethic -- Spain -- History.
Labor -- Spain -- History.
Spain -- Historiography.
European 4 : -- 1400-1800.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 9780801444623 cloth : alk. paper
0801444624 cloth : alk. paper
9780801473142 pbk. : alk. paper
0801473144 pbk. : alk. paper
Standard No. 2027/heb34067 hdl

 
    
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