Prestatehood Legal Materials 2 vols

Prestatehood Legal Materials is your one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this book identifies a wide range of available resources--from early municipal documents and county records to the latest journals and Web sites. This resource focuses on materials that are readily available to historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and researchers. Information experts in law and library sciences compiled each chapter using their own styles, culminating in a diverse sourcebook that is interesting as well as informative.