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100 1 _aTownsend, Camilla
245 1 0 _aTales of two cities : race and economic culture in early republican North and South America : Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland /
_cCamilla Townsend
260 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c2000.
300 _a320 p.
500 _aInclude index
520 _aChallenges 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.
650 0 _aSocial classes
650 0 _aEconomic history
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