Townsend, Camilla
Tales of two cities : race and economic culture in early republican North and South America : Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland / Camilla Townsend - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000. - 320 p.
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Challenges the view that North Americans succeeded because of the Protestant work ethic and argues instead that they prospered relative to South Americans because of differences in attitudes towards workers that evolved in the colonial era.
9780292781696
Social classes
Economic history
305.5097526 T747T 2000
Tales of two cities : race and economic culture in early republican North and South America : Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland / Camilla Townsend - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000. - 320 p.
Include index
Challenges the view that North Americans succeeded because of the Protestant work ethic and argues instead that they prospered relative to South Americans because of differences in attitudes towards workers that evolved in the colonial era.
9780292781696
Social classes
Economic history
305.5097526 T747T 2000