The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine: A Centennial Reappraisal

by Alan Diamond (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521400237
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/07/1991
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.33(h) x 1.57(d)

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors; Foreword Sir John Lyons; Introduction Alan Diamond; 1. The Victorian values of Sir Henry Maine George Feaver; Part I. Maine and the Idea of Progress: 2. Henry Maine and mid-Victorian ideas of progress John W. Burrow; 3. Maine, progress and theory Raymond Cocks; 4. Maine and the theory of progress Krishan Kumar; 5. Democracy and excitement: Maine's political pessimism Stefan Collini; Part II. Maine and the Social Sciences: 6. The rise and fall of Maine's patriarchal society Adam Kuper; 7. Some contributions of Maine to history and anthropology Alan D. J. Macfarlane; 8. Henry Sumner Maine in the tradition of the analysis of society Edward Shils; 9. Maine as an ancestor of the social sciences J. D. Y. Peel; 10. Ancient Law and modern fieldwork Ray Abrahams; Part III. Maine on Law, Legal Change and Legal Education: 11. Maine and legal education Peter G. Stein; 12. Maine and legal education: a comment William Twining; 13. A wake (or awakening?) for historical jurisprudence Calvin Woodard; 14. Further thoughts on Maine's historical jurisprudence David E. C. Yale; 15. Fictions, equity and legislation: Maine's three agencies of legal change Alan Diamond; 16. Law and language: a metaphor in Maine, a model for his successors? Bernard S. Jackson; 17. Linguistics and law: the legacy of Sir Henry Maine John Lyons; Part IV. Maine and India: 18. The influence of Sir Henry Maine on agrarian policy in India Clive Dewey; 19. India and Henry Maine Gordon Johnson; 20. Maine and change in nineteenth-century India C. A. Bayly; Appendix: the conference programme; Bibliography; Index.