Comparative Politics

by Edward A. Freeman

Overview

The origin of "Comparative Politics" in one sense of the expression, is the same as the origin of Comparative Jurisprudence. In 1871, in the first of his lectures on "Village Communities in the East and West," Maine observed: - " The enquiry upon which we are engaged can only be said to belong to Comparative Jurisprudence if the word 'Comparative' be used as it is used in such expressions as 'Comparative Philology' and 'Comparative Mythology.' We shall examine a number of parallel phenomena with the view of establishing, if possible, that some of them are related to one another in the order of historical succession. I think," he continued, "I may venture to affirm that the Comparative Method which has already been fruitful of such wonderful results, is not distinguishable in some of its applications from the Historical Method.

-The Sociological Review, Vol. 1

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663552518
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	08/18/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Edward Augustus Freeman[1] (2 August 1823 – 16 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom William Gladstone, as well as a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans; later he and Evans would be activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1874–1878) against the Ottoman Empire. After the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Evans, he and Evans collaborated on the fourth volume of his History of Sicily. He was a prolific writer, publishing 239 distinct works.[2] One of his best known is his magnum opus, The History of the Norman Conquest of England (published in 6 volumes, 1867–1879). Both he and Margaret died before Evans purchased the land from which he would excavate the Palace of Knossos.