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Lazy Improvident People Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History
Author: Ruth MacKay
Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation’s alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In "Lazy, Improvident People," the historian Ruth Mac...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801444623
ISBN-10: 0801444624
Publication Date: 4/28/2006
Pages: 312
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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