Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine

A Centennial Reappraisal

Bibliographic Data

ID23495704
EditorsAlan Diamond
Year2009
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueVictorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511521355
OpenAlexW2174348019
ISBN9780511521355
Open LibraryOL34437252M
LanguageEN
Citations received14

In The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine some of the world's leading scholars, in a wide range of disciplines, come together to consider the extraordinary achievement of Sir Henry Maine, sometime Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1877–1888) and one of the most powerful and original minds of the Victorian age. The disciplinary range and scholarly stature of the contributors is itself testimony to the fascination of Maine's work which, after a period of relative neglect, is now recognized as a unique and fecund contribution to the development of social scientific study. The book is divided into four sections, dealing with the principal strands of Maine's life and writing, viz. his views on social and political progress, his anthropological and social scientific works, his legal and jurisprudential thought and finally his writings on Indian affairs, the product (in part) of his experiences as the legal member of Council of the Governor-General from 1862 to 1869.

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