"Lazy, improvident people" : myth and reality in the writing of Spanish history / Ruth MacKay.

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2006.

xii, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book is published with the aid of a grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2006.

Ideas in context ; 99.

Seventeenth-Century Castile -- Las Luces -- "The Problem of Spain".

Prologue: Castile and Craftsmen in the Early Modern Period -- The Republic of Labor -- The Life of Labor -- Prologue: Work in the Eighteenth Century -- The New Thinking -- The New Work Ethic -- Prologue: The Short Nineteenth Century and the Empire -- A Nation Punished -- The Narrative.