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Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
Camilla Townsend
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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 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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292781696
SKU
V9780292781696
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About Camilla Townsend
Camilla Townsend is Professor of History at Rutgers University.
Reviews for Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
"An impressive comparative study... Townsend unearths and imaginatively interprets a wealth of documentary evidence-from newspapers and travel accounts to court cases, account books, and government documents. The result is a finely textured social history that will appeal to historians specialising in modern U.S. and Latin American history, as well as to students in general college survey courses on these subjects." ... Read more