Lazy, Improvident People

by MacKay, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780801473142
• ISBN10: 0801473144
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-28
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

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 failu

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Seventeenth-Century Castile
Prologue: Castile and Craftsmen in the Early Modern Period	p. 11
The Republic of Labor	p. 20
The Life of Labor	p. 72
Las Luces
Prologue: Work in the Eighteenth Century	p. 111
The New Thinking	p. 120
The New Work Ethic	p. 163
"The Problem of Spain"
Prologue: The Short Nineteenth Century and the Empire	p. 201
A Nation Punished	p. 207
The Narrative	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 293
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