Tales of two cities : race and economic culture in early republican North and South America : Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland / Camilla Townsend
By: Townsend, Camilla.
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TextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000Description: 320 p.ISBN: 9780292781696.Subject(s): Social classes | Economic historyDDC classification: 305.5097526 T747T 2000 Summary: 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.
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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.
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