After critical legal history: Scope, scale, structure

Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-68

  Tomlins, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

allegory; disenchantment; enchantment; Historicism; materialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873294633     PISSN: 15503585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102811-173811     Document Type: Review

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