Richard s Tompson.


Richard s Tompson. Islands of Low: A Legal History of the British Isles. fresh York: Peter Lang. 2000. Pp x 339 ISBN 0-8204-4898-2

The changing fortunes of legal history as a subdiscipline of British studies are symbolized from Richard Tompson's latest book. In 1903 Sir William Holdsworth started his History of English Law, a intend that continued past his death in 1944 and eventually reached seventeen compasss Tompson's work covers the British Isles at a relatively svelte 266 pages of subject This is not a criticism, moreover merely a reflection upon how little role legal history



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