| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860. By Mark M. Carroll. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xx + 244 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

Mark M. Carroll offers the reader a fastpaced narrative that examines the development of civil law governing the interaction of race, marriage, divorce, and property disputes in Texas. The author suggests that this "study of legal discourse, race, and class" reveals "how frontier society and public institutions both shaped and responded to family and sexual norms in antebellum Texas in ways radically different from those of the urbanizing North and . . . the slave South" (p. xix). Texas civil law comprised a legal system that ensured Anglo-Texan racial dominance. Texas jurists, such as John Hemphill, borrowed from Spanish law (Las Siete Partidas), Tejano customs, English common law, and southern slave laws to craft a system that worked on the frontier. . . .

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