| Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas Contributor(s): Ariens, Michael (Author), Bakken, Gordon Morris (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0896726959 ISBN-13: 9780896726956 Publisher: Texas Tech University Press OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) |
| Dewey: 349.764 |
| LCCN: 2011030194 |
| Series: American Liberty & Justice |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 7.19" W x 10.3" (2.06 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Michael Ariens proves that no state possesses a richer or more surprising legal history than Texas. In narrative as engaging as it is accessible, he has produced an overarching consideration of Lone Star law and legal culture--something notably missing in other Texas histories. After taking readers chronologically from early settlement through 1920, Ariens focuses on particular areas of Texas law, including property, family, business, criminal, and civil harms (tort), and on the history of Texas's legal profession itself. Through illuminating and utterly Texan particulars, Ariens helps us understand a place at once southern and western, Spanish and Mexican, republic and state. |