LEADER 03588nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910819034903321 005 20230207223253.0 010 $a0-292-79881-4 024 7 $a10.7560/781672 035 $a(CKB)111090425017278 035 $a(OCoLC)646760658 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245684 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000255350 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235018 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000255350 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10213663 035 $a(PQKB)10810665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443214 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1932 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443214 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245684 035 $a(OCoLC)932313837 035 $a(DE-B1597)587567 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292798816 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090425017278 100 $a19990614d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTales of two cities $erace and economic culture in early republican North and South America : Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland /$fCamilla Townsend 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-78167-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tList of Maps and Tables -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPrologue: First Impressions -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I -- $t1. In the Streets of the Cities -- $t2. Conquest and Colony -- $tPart II -- $t3. A Merry Party and Serious Business -- $t4. Strawberry Parties and Habits of Industry -- $tPart III -- $t5. The Quest of the ??Personas Decentes?? -- $t6. The Quest of the Contributing Citizens -- $tPart IV -- $t7. Working on Dead Man?s Rock -- $t8. ??To Become the Unfortunate Tenants of Your Alms House?? -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWith 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. 606 $aSocial classes$zEcuador$zGuayaquil$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial classes$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aBaltimore (Md.)$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 607 $aGuayaquil (Ecuador)$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory 676 $a305.5/09752/6 700 $aTownsend$b Camilla$f1965-$0702243 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819034903321 996 $aTales of two cities$93948395 997 $aUNINA