Carla Rahn Phillips is Union Pacific Professor Emerita in Comparative Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota. Her previous publications include Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (1997, with William D. Phillips, Jr, winner of the 1998 'Leo Gershoy' Award of the American Historical Association), Six Galleons for the King of Spain (1986, also winner of the 'Leo Gershoy' award), and The Treasure of the San Jose: Death at Sea in War of the Spanish Succession (2007, winner of the Award for Excellence in World History...