Henry Sumner Maine (1822–1888)
Auteur de 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 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
Ancient Law: Its Connection With The Early History of Society, And Its Relation To Modern Ideas (1861) 230 exemplaires
Etudes sur l'ancien droit et la costume primitive 1 exemplaire
Maine's ancient law (chapters I, II, III, VI, IX) 1 exemplaire
Ancient Law ... Eleventh edition 1 exemplaire
International Law 1 exemplaire
Sir Henry Maine; a brief memoir of his life 1 exemplaire
L'ancien droit considéré dans ses rapports avec l'histoire de la société primitive et avec les les idées modernes (1873) 1 exemplaire
Memoir of Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam 1 exemplaire
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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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- 23
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- 1
- Membres
- 327
- Popularité
- #72,482
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
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- ISBN
- 68
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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)