TY  - BOOK
AU  - Townsend,Camilla
TI  - Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America 
SN  - 9780292798816
AV  - HN320.Z9 S67 2000eb
U1  - 305.5/09752/6 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Ecuador
KW  - Guayaquil
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Baltimore
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Maps and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue: First Impressions --; Introduction --; Part I --; 1. In the Streets of the Cities --; 2. Conquest and Colony --; Part II --; 3. A Merry Party and Serious Business --; 4. Strawberry Parties and Habits of Industry --; Part III --; 5. The Quest of the ‘‘Personas Decentes’’ --; 6. The Quest of the Contributing Citizens --; Part IV --; 7. Working on Dead Man’s Rock --; 8. ‘‘To Become the Unfortunate Tenants of Your Alms House’’ --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - With a common heritage as former colonies of Europe, why did the United States so outstrip Latin America in terms of economic development in the nineteenth century? In this innovative study, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North Americans succeeded because of better attitudes toward work—the Protestant work ethic—and argues instead that they prospered because of differences in attitudes towards workers that evolved in the colonial era. Townsend builds her study around workers' lives in two very similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s. Through the eyes of the young Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, Maryland, and an Indian woman named Ana Yagual in Guayaquil, Ecuador, she shows how differing attitudes towards race and class in North and South America affected local ways of doing business. This empirical research significantly clarifies the relationship between economic culture and racial identity and its long-term effects
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/781672
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292798816
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292798816/original
ER  -