Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America

by Camilla Townsend

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292781695
• ISBN13: 9780292781696
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"