"Lazy, Improvident People" : : Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History / / Ruth MacKay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: MacKay, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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