Breaking the Sheep's Back

Cover -- Author bio -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acronyms and Glossary -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Part I: The Rise of Statutory Intervention - 1840 to 1947 -- 1 'An inexorable current' -- 2 Of patriots, government princes and wool emperors -- 3 The binary choice - 1950s to 1958 -- 4 'If the play gets rough, I can mix it' -- 5 'Marketing mesmerism' - 1966 to 1969 -- 6 'All your danger is in discord!' - McEwenism to late 1960s -- 7 'The spontaneous uprising of the unwashed peasantry' - the great wool coup of 1970 -- 8 'Without ever admitting to having done so'