The Mesta: A Study in Spanish Economic History 1273-1836 (Classic Reprint)FB&C Limited, 2015 M08 6 - 468 páginas Excerpt from The Mesta: A Study in Spanish Economic History 1273-1836 As a factor in the laying of the foundations of the Castilian Eta - 126 which rose from the ruins of the Reconquest, the-mesta played an inconspicuous but important part. It was used by each of the. Stronger sovereigns in' turn to carry on a prolonged struggle against the ancient traditions of Spanish separatism political, racial, and economic provincialism and to work toward a united peninsula. Its rise synchronized with the suc cessful efforts of the warrior monarchs of the Reconquest to weld their newly won dominions into a nation. Its decline began with the collapse of the monarchy and the triumph of separatist in fluences under the seventeenth-century Hapsburgs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
