"Lazy, Improvident People" : : Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History / / Ruth MacKay.
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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MacKay, Ruth, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut "Lazy, Improvident People" : Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History / Ruth MacKay. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2006 1 online resource (312 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART 1. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CASTILE -- Prologue: Castile and Craftsmen in the Early Modern Period -- 1. The Republic of Labor -- 2. The Life of Labor -- PART 2. LAS LUCES -- Prologue: Work in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. The New Thinking -- 4. The New Work Ethic -- PART 3. “THE PROBLEM OF SPAIN” -- Prologue: The Short Nineteenth Century and the Empire -- 5. A Nation Punished -- 6. The Narrative -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. In "Lazy, Improvident People" the historian Ruth MacKay examines the origins of this deeply ingrained historical prejudice and cultural stereotype.MacKay finds these origins in the ilustrados, the Enlightenment intellectuals and reformers who rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century. To advance their own, patriotic project of rationalization and progress, they disparaged what had gone before. Relying in part on late medieval and early modern political treatises about "vile and mechanical" labor, they claimed that previous generations of Spaniards had been indolent and backward. Through a close reading of the archival record, MacKay shows that such treatises and dramatic literature in no way reflected the actual lives of early modern artisans, who were neither particularly slothful nor untalented. On the contrary, they behaved as citizens, and their work was seen as dignified and essential to the common good. MacKay contends that the ilustrados' profound misreading of their own past created a propagandistic myth that has been internalized by subsequent intellectuals. MacKay's is thus a book about the notion of Spanish exceptionalism, the ways in which this notion developed, and the burden and skewed vision it has imposed on Spaniards and outsiders."Lazy, Improvident People" will fascinate not only historians of early modern and modern Spain but all readers who are concerned with the process by which historical narratives are formed, reproduced, and given authority. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Labor Spain History. National characteristics, Spanish History. Work ethic Spain History. Europe. History. HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501728389 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501728389 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501728389/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART 1. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CASTILE -- Prologue: Castile and Craftsmen in the Early Modern Period -- 1. The Republic of Labor -- 2. The Life of Labor -- PART 2. LAS LUCES -- Prologue: Work in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. The New Thinking -- 4. The New Work Ethic -- PART 3. “THE PROBLEM OF SPAIN” -- Prologue: The Short Nineteenth Century and the Empire -- 5. A Nation Punished -- 6. The Narrative -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART 1. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CASTILE -- Prologue: Castile and Craftsmen in the Early Modern Period -- 1. The Republic of Labor -- 2. The Life of Labor -- PART 2. LAS LUCES -- Prologue: Work in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. The New Thinking -- 4. The New Work Ethic -- PART 3. “THE PROBLEM OF SPAIN” -- Prologue: The Short Nineteenth Century and the Empire -- 5. A Nation Punished -- 6. The Narrative -- Bibliography -- Index |
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