Tales of two cities : race and economic culture in early republican North and South America : Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland
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Tales of two cities : race and economic culture in early republican North and South America : Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland
University of Texas Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
The United States and the countries of Latin America were all colonised by Europeans, yet in terms of economic development, the U.S. far outstripped Latin America beginning in the nineteenth century. Observers have often tried to account for this disparity, many of them claiming that differences in cultural attitudes toward work explain the U.S.'s greater prosperity. In this innovative study, however, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North Americans succeeded because of the so-called 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. Townsend builds her study around workers' lives in two similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s. Through the eyes of the young Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, Maryland, and an Indian girl 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 clarifies the significant relationship between economic culture and racial identity and its long-term effects.
Camilla Townsend is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
目次
- Contents: Part I: In the Streets of the Cities
- Conquest and Colony Part II: A MERRY PARTY AND SERIOUS BUSINESS: The Elite of Guayaquil
- Strawberry Parties and Habits of Industry: The Elite of Baltimore Part III: The Quest of the "Personas Decentes": The Middling Ranks of Guayaquil
- The Quest of the Contributing Citizens: The Middling Ranks of Baltimore Part IV: Working on Dead Man's Rock: The Poor of Guayaquil
- " To Become the Unfortunate Tenants of Your Alms House": The Poor of Baltimore
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