03588nam 2200625Ia 450 991081903490332120230207223253.00-292-79881-410.7560/781672(CKB)111090425017278(OCoLC)646760658(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245684(SSID)ssj0000255350(PQKBManifestationID)11235018(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000255350(PQKBWorkID)10213663(PQKB)10810665(MiAaPQ)EBC3443214(MdBmJHUP)muse1932(Au-PeEL)EBL3443214(CaPaEBR)ebr10245684(OCoLC)932313837(DE-B1597)587567(DE-B1597)9780292798816(EXLCZ)9911109042501727819990614d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTales of two cities race and economic culture in early republican North and South America : Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland /Camilla Townsend1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20001 online resource (345 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-78167-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexWith 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.Social classesEcuadorGuayaquilHistory19th centurySocial classesMarylandBaltimoreHistory19th centuryBaltimore (Md.)Economic conditions19th centuryGuayaquil (Ecuador)Economic conditions19th centurySocial classesHistorySocial classesHistory305.5/09752/6Townsend Camilla1965-702243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819034903321Tales of two cities3948395UNINA