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Article: Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 1999
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Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips, Jr., Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xviii + 441 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 0-8018-5518-7.
These two studies on economic and social history represent the best current work in the field. Both books, resting on massive amounts of archival research, will define their fields and shape scholarship for years to come.
The Phillips have brought together decades of their own research, as well as the best of contemporary Spanish work, to provide the first modern, thorough history of the Mesta. This institution functioned in Castile as a public mechanism for settling disputes between herders and farmers, and ...