Henry Sumner Maine (1822–1888)

Author of Ancient Law: Its Connection With The Early History of Society, And Its Relation To Modern Ideas

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Sir Henry Sumner Maine (1822-1888) remains one of the most prominent scholars of a great age of legal-historical studies. A lecturer on jurisprudence at Oxford and Cambridge, a journalist in London, as well as a colonial administrator in India, Maine is acknowledged today as a pioneer in show more establishing anthropological jurisprudence as an aspect of the study of comparative law Dante J. Scala is an assistant professor of politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire show less

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Image credit: Picture of a portrait (1892) of Sumner Maine, with Signature, by Lowes Dickinson, n.d.

Works by Henry Sumner Maine

Popular Government (1885) 72 copies, 1 review

Village-Communities in the East and West (1871) 10 copies

Lectures on the Early History of Institutions (1874) 9 copies

Az ősi jog Összefüggése a társadalom korai történetével és kapcsolata a modern eszmékkel (1988) 3 copies

Dissertations on early law and custom (1999) 2 copies

Maine's ancient law (chapters I, II, III, VI, IX) 1 copy

Memoir of Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam 1 copy

L'ancien droit considéré dans ses rapports avec l'histoire de la société primitive et avec les idées modernes (1873) 1 copy

Etudes sur l'Histoire du Droit (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2017) 1 copy

Sir Henry Maine; a brief memoir of his life 1 copy

International Law (1888) 1 copy

Village-Communities in the East and West with Other Lectures, Addresses, and Essays 1 copy

Etudes sur l'ancien droit et la costume primitive 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Portable Conservative Reader (1982) — Contributor — 232 copies, 1 review

Readings in Jurisprudence (1938) — Contributor — 8 copies

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Birthdate: 1822-08-15
Date of death: 1888-02-03
Gender: male
Education: University of Cambridge (Pembroke College)
Organizations: University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
Awards and honors: Order of the Star of India (Knight Commander)
Short biography: Sir Henry Maine was s leading legal scholar and teacher in Victorian England. In his early career he emphasized the history and evolution of law first as an instructor then as Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University. He lectured at the Inns of Law in London, then an instructor. After having served in the British colonial government of India, he returned to teaching as a Professor at Oxford. In 1878 Sir Henry returned to Cambridge as master of Trinity College at Cambridge. Sir Henry continued to serve the state department on the Indian Council, and turned his attention to the nature and effect of governments. His written ‘works’ are either collections of lectures or scholarly essays from His career.
Nationality: UK
Associated Place (for map): UK

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ServusLibri 106 reviews

Four Essays on the nature, impact, prospects and dangers of democracies. Essays are: Popular Government, The Nature of Democracy, The Age of Progress, and The Constitution of the United States.
The author was perhaps the foremost legal scholar of his day (1885) in Britain. He makes quite a number of points, in interesting language, several of which I have not encountered before in extensive reading. Throughout the essays he compares the experience of various governments, and concludes that show more democracy is a fairly unstable, mostly unsuccessful and sometimes disastrous form of government. He includes some reasoning and discussion of the attributes of successful popular government. The essay on the U.S. Constitution contains some very interesting comparisons of the British and U.S. governments of the 18th and 19th centuries. Highly recommended and republished recently the work certainly deserves a wider distribution among all interseted in political history and governance. show less

Aug 7, 2008

pszolovits 2,567 reviews

Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas by Henry Sumner Maine