The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine

A Centennial Reappraisal

By: Alan Diamond (Editor), Diamond Alan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 6 January 1992

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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 recognised 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. The whole amounts to a major reconsideration of a particularly eminent Victorian, and one of the greatest Masters of Trinity Hall.

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Notes on contributors
Foreword
Introduction Alan Diamond
The Victorian values of
Maine and the Idea of Progress
Henry Maine and mid-Victorian ideas of progress
Maine, progress and theory
Maine and the theory of progress
Democracy and excitement: Maine's political pessimism
Maine and the Social Sciences
The rise and fall of Maine's patriarchal society
Some contributions of Maine to history and anthropology
Henry Sumner Maine in the tradition of the analysis of society
Maine as an ancestor of the social sciences
Ancient Law and modern fieldwork
Maine on Law, Legal Change and Legal Education
Maine and legal education
Maine and legal education: a comment
A wake (or awakening?) for historical jurisprudence
Further thoughts on Maine's historical jurisprudence
Fictions, equity and legislation: Maine's three agencies of legal change
Law and language: a metaphor in Maine, a model for his successors?
Linguistics and law: the legacy of
Maine and India
The influence of Sir Henry Maine on agrarian policy in India
India and Henry Maine
Maine and change in nineteenth-century India
Appendix: the conference programme
Bibliography
Index
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