| Review | The William and Mary Quarterly, 58.3

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Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America. By Camilla Townsend. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 320. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)

In Tales of Two Cities—Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland—Camilla Townsend makes an important contribution to the current revival of interest in one of the long-standing questions regarding the history of the Americas. Spanish America, settled more than one century before British America, was by far the richer territory, both for the native inhabitants in the pre-settlement period and subsequently in the initial centuries of European settlement and dominance. With the predominantly Native American population engaged in agricultural production and gold and silver mining, the shipment of specie to Spain yielded great riches for both the colonies and the Spanish metropolis. Yet, by 1750 or thereabouts the thirteen British colonies of mainland North America had surpassed the Spanish colonies in wealth. The thirteen colonies possessed a largely white population, albeit with a large minority of African slaves in the staple-producing settlements in the South. The economic supremacy of North America waxed over time, as did that of Britain over Spain within Europe. . . .

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