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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 afficher plus 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 afficher moins
Crédit image: Picture of a portrait (1892) of Sumner Maine, with Signature, by Lowes Dickinson, n.d.

Œuvres de Henry Sumner Maine

Popular Government (1885) 51 exemplaires
Popular Government (1885) 1 exemplaire
Popular Government: Four Essays (2016) 1 exemplaire

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The Portable Conservative Reader (1982) — Contributeur — 210 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1822-08-15
Date de décès
1888-02-03
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Études
University of Cambridge (Pembroke College)
Organisations
University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
Prix et distinctions
Order of the Star of India (Knight Commander)
Courte biographie
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.

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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 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.… (plus d'informations)
 
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